Famous quotes containing the word fine:
“Faith is a fine invention
When Gentlemen can see
But Microscopes are prudent
In an Emergency.”
—Emily Dickinson (18301886)
“I have a vocabulary all my own. I pass the time when it is wet and disagreeable. When it is fine I do not wish to pass it; I ruminate it and hold on to it. We should hasten over the bad, and settle upon the good.”
—Michel de Montaigne (15331592)
“To have gathered from the air a live tradition
or from a fine old eye the unconquered flame
This is not vanity.
Here error is all in the not done,
all in the diffidence that faltered . . .”
—Ezra Pound (18851972)
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