Hold

Famous quotes containing the word hold:

“I hold you as a thing enskied, and sainted,
By your renouncement an immortal spirit,
And to be talked with in sincerity,
As with a saint.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it.... “Beware of me,” it says, “but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.””
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“And call ye this to utter what is just,
You that of justice hold the sov’reign throne?
And call ye this to yield, O sons of dust,
To wronged brethren ev’ry man his own?”
—Bible: Hebrew Psalm LVIII (Paraphrased by The Countess of Pembroke)