Famous quotes containing the words james, lick, mansion and/or history:
“... religious experience, as we have studied it, cannot be cited as unequivocally supporting the infinitist belief. The only thing that it unequivocally testifies to is that we can experience union with something larger than ourselves and in that union find our greatest peace.”
—William James (1842–1910)
“I like to see it lap the Miles—
And lick the Valleys up—”
—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)
“Look,
I draw the sword myself; take it, and hit
The innocent mansion of my love, my heart.
Fear not, ‘tis empty of all things but grief.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“These anyway might think it was important
That human history should not be shortened.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)