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)