Closes

Famous quotes containing the word closes:

    There where the course is,
    Delight makes all of the one mind,
    The riders upon the galloping horses,
    The crowd that closes in behind....
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    And what, then, is belief? It is the demi-cadence which closes a musical phrase in the symphony of our intellectual life.
    Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)

    Every winter the liquid and trembling surface of the pond, which was so sensitive to every breath, and reflected every light and shadow, becomes solid to the depth of a foot or a foot and a half, so that it will support the heaviest teams, and perchance the snow covers it to an equal depth, and it is not to be distinguished from any level field. Like the marmots in the surrounding hills, it closes its eyelids and becomes dormant for three months or more.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)