Hole Set Attempts

Famous quotes containing the words hole, set and/or attempts:

    The more supple vagabond, too, is sure to appear on the least rumor of such a gathering, and the next day to disappear, and go into his hole like the seventeen-year locust, in an ever-shabby coat, though finer than the farmer’s best, yet never dressed.... He especially is the creature of the occasion. He empties both his pockets and his character into the stream, and swims in such a day. He dearly loves the social slush. There is no reserve of soberness in him.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    I consider it equal injustice to set our heart against natural pleasures and to set our heart too much on them. We should neither pursue them, nor flee them; we should accept them.
    Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

    Because the soul is progressive, it never quite repeats itself, but in every act attempts the production of a new and fairer whole.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)