Famous quotes containing the words small, claim and/or courts:
“Youpoor and obscure, and small and plain as you areI entreat to accept me as a husband.”
—Charlotte Brontë (18161855)
“O God, oh! of thine only worthy blood,
And my tears, make a heavenly Lethean flood,
And drown in it my sins black memory.
That thou remember them, some claim as debt;
I think it mercy, if thou wilt forget.”
—John Donne (15721631)
“But O, young beauty of the woods,
Whom Nature courts with fruits and flowers,
Gather the flowers, but spare the buds;
Lest Flora, angry at thy crime
To kill her infants in their prime,
Do quickly make the example yours;
And ere we see,
Nip in the blossom all our hopes and thee.”
—Andrew Marvell (16211678)
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