Famous quotes containing the words common and/or fears:
“Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest.”
—Book Of Common Prayer, The. The Second Sunday in Advent, “The Collect,” (1662)
“When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality. This is always exhilarating and sublime.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)