Device Power

Famous quotes containing the words device and/or power:

    “A bracelet of bright hair about the bone,
    Will he not let us alone,
    And think that there a loving couple lies
    Who thought that this device might be some way
    To make their souls, at the last busy day,
    Meet at this grave, and make a little stay?”
    —John Donne (1572–1631)

    “There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into itself.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)