Famous quotes containing the words mass, spring and/or damper:
“The great mass of people judge well of things, for they are in natural ignorance, which is mans true state.”
—Blaise Pascal (16231662)
“With spring the father-sky remakes the world:
The male shower has flowed into the bride,
Earths body; then shifted through sky and sea and land
To touch the quickening child in her deep side.”
—Allen Tate (18991979)
“The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, to a certain extent, to communicate his misery. He frightens other people as much as they frighten him. He acts like a damper upon the whole room, and the most jovial spirits become, in his presence, depressed and nervous.”
—Jerome K. Jerome (18591927)
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