Famous quotes containing the words larger and/or prey:
“Cowardice shuts the eyes till the sky is not larger than a calf-skin: shuts the eyes so that we cannot see the horse that is running away with us; worse, shuts the eyes of the mind and chills the heart.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Thoughts, like old vultures, prey upon their heart-strings,”
—Isaac Watts (1674–1748)