Famous quotes containing the words wind, compass and/or rose:
“Who has seen the wind?
Neither I nor you:
But when the leaves hang trembling,
The wind is passing through.”
—Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894)
“Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy which fixes our hearts successively to all the qualities of the person loved—sometimes admiring one and sometimes another above all the rest—so that this constancy roves as far as it can, and is no better than inconstancy, confined within the compass of one person.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
“An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
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