Famous quotes containing the word perform:
“Whatever does not spring from a mans free choice, or is only the result of instruction and guidance, does not enter into his very being, but still remains alien to his true nature; he does not perform it with truly human energies, but merely with mechanical exactness.”
—Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt (17671835)
“All perform their tragic play,
There struts Hamlet, there is Lear,
Thats Ophelia, that Cordelia;”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all our hearts, and we commit a great sin if we forbid or prevent that cultivation of the mind in others which would enable them to perform this duty.”
—Angelina Grimké (18051879)