Conservative Friends/the Hicksite-orthodox Schism

Famous quotes containing the words conservative, friends and/or schism:

    “To be conservative requires no brains whatsoever. Cabbages, cows and conifers are conservatives, and are so stupid they don’t even know it. All that is basically required is acceptance of what exists.”
    —Colin Welch (b. 1924)

    “A man’s fortunes are the fruit of his character. A man’s friends are his magnetisms.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    ““Summer, you are the eucharist of death;
    Partake of you and never again
    Will midnight foot it steeply into dawn,
    Dawn veer into day,
    Nor the praised schism be of year split off year....””
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)