Famous quotes containing the words weight and/or shift:
“I falter where I firmly trod,
And falling with my weight of cares
Upon the great worlds altar-stairs
That slope thro darkness up to God,”
—Alfred Tennyson (18091892)
“The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. They make shift to live merely by conformity, practically as their fathers did, and are in no sense the progenitors of a nobler race of men.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)