Wards Won

Famous quotes containing the words wards and/or won:

    “Only by obedience to his genius; only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise before a man, and lead him by the hand out of all the wards of the prison.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Dule and wae for the order sent our lads to the Border;
    The English, for ance, by guile won the day:
    The Flowers of the Forest, that foucht aye the foremost,
    The prime o’ our land, are cauld in the clay.”
    —Jean Elliot (1727–1805)