Manifold Obtained

Famous quotes containing the words manifold and/or obtained:

“Civilisation is hooped together, brought
Under a rule, under the semblance of peace
By manifold illusion....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“God gave the righteous man a certificate entitling him to food and raiment, but the unrighteous man found a facsimile of the same in God’s coffers, and appropriated it, and obtained food and raiment like the former. It is one of the most extensive systems of counterfeiting that the world has seen.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)