Famous quotes containing the words earl and/or rivers:
“Words, which are the dress of thoughts, deserve surely more care than clothes, which are only the dress of the person.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“No more shall the war cry sever,
Or the winding rivers be red:
They banish our anger forever
When they laurel the graves of our dead!
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the Judgment Day:—
Love and tears for the Blue;
Tears and love for the Gray.”
—Francis Miles Finch (1827–1907)