Black Stuff Gown

Famous quotes containing the words black, stuff and/or gown:

    “th’ other black and grave, wherewith each one
    Is checker’d all along,
    Humilitie:”
    —George Herbert (1593–1633)

    “The Same, the Same: friend and foe are of one stuff; the ploughman, the plough, and the furrow, are of one stuff; and the stuff is such, and so much, that the variations of form are unimportant.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “GOETHE, raised o’er joy and strife,
    Drew the firm lines of Fate and Life,
    And brought Olympian wisdom down
    To court and mar, to gown and town,
    Stooping, his finger wrote in clay
    The open secret of to-day.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)