Impose Sentence

Famous quotes containing the words impose and/or sentence:

“To give liberty to a slave before he understands its value is, perhaps, rather to impose a penalty than to bestow a blessing ...”
—Frances Wright (1795–1852)

“The pipe, with solemn interposing puff,
Makes half a sentence at a time enough;
The dozing sages drop the drowsy strain,
Then pause, and puff—and speak, and pause again.”
—William Cowper (1731–1800)