Famous quotes containing the words earth, charter and/or youth:
“Alas! While your ambitious vanity is unceasingly laboring to cover the earth with statues, with monuments, and with inscriptions to eternalize, if possible, your names, and give yourselves an existence, when this body is no more, why must we be condemned to live and die unknown?”
—Thomas Paine 17371809, U.S. writer and magazine editor. Pennsylvania Magazine, pp. 362-4 (1775)
“Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing,
And like enough thou knowst thy estimate:
The charter of thy worth gives thee releasing;
My bonds in thee are all determinate.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“He wears the rose
Of youth upon him, from which the world should note
Something particular.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
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