Threads

Famous quotes containing the word threads:

    Ye whose clay-cold heads and luke-warm hearts can argue down or mask your passions—tell me, what trespass is it that man should have them?... If nature has so wove her web of kindness, that some threads of love and desire are entangled with the piece—must the whole web be rent in drawing them out?
    Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)

    Illusion, Temperament, Succession, Surface, Surprise, Reality, Subjectiveness,—these are the threads on the loom of time, these are the lords of life.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    ‘Tis sweet to feel by what fine-spun threads our affections are drawn together.
    Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)