Famous quotes containing the word ulterior:
“On the threshold of any wholly new and momentous devoted enterprise, the thousand ulterior intricacies and emperilings to which it must conduct; these, at the outset, are mostly withheld from sight.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
“Nor will this overwhelming tendency to do wrong for wrongs sake, admit of analysis, or resolution into ulterior elements. It is a radical, a primitive impulseelementary.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (18091849)
“The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
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