Degree Burns

Famous quotes containing the words degree and/or burns:

    It is true that genius takes its rise out of the mountains of rectitude; that all beauty and power which men covet are somehow born out of that Alpine district; that any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    What’s done we partly may compute,
    But know not what’s resisted.
    —Robert Burns (1759–1796)