Web Color Dark

Famous quotes containing the words web, color and/or dark:

    “The soul knows only the soul; the web of events is the flowing robe in which she is clothed.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “‘Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land,
    Taught my benighted soul to understand
    That there’s a God, that there’s a Saviour too:
    Once I redemption neither sought nor knew.
    Some view our sable race with scornful eye,
    “Their color is a diabolic die.”
    Remember, Christians, Negroes, black as Cain,
    May be refin’d, and join th’ angelic train.”
    —Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753–1784)

    “My beautiful, my beautiful! That standest meekly by,
    With thy proudly-arched and glossy neck, and dark and fiery eye!”
    —Caroline Sheridan Norton (1808–1877)