Bear True Faith

Famous quotes containing the words bear, true and/or faith:

    “The time of universal peace is near.
    Prove this a prosp’rous day, the three-nooked world
    Shall bear the olive freely.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “A true poem is distinguished not so much by a felicitous expression, or any thought it suggests, as by the atmosphere which surrounds it. Most have beauty of outline merely, and are striking as the form and bearing of a stranger; but true verses come toward us indistinctly, as the very breath of all friendliness, and envelop us in their spirit and fragrance.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost sight of.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)