Famous quotes containing the words losing, trick and/or count:
“The eager fate which carried thee
Took the largest part of me:
For this losing is true dying;
This is lordly mans down-lying,
This his slow but sure reclining,
Star by star his world resigning.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“If thou must love me, let it be for nought
Except for loves sake only. Do not say
I love her for her smileher lookher way
Of speaking gently,for a trick of thought
That falls in well with mine, and certes brought
A sense of pleasant ease on such a day”
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning (18061861)
“It is not worth the while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar. Yet do this even till you can do better, and you may perhaps find some Symmes Hole by which to get at the inside at last.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)