Mastered

Famous quotes containing the word mastered:

“I dreaded that first robin so,
But he is mastered now,”
—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)

“Hold, you rule only when mastered by your friends.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)

“Indeed, there is hardly the professor in our colleges, who, if he has mastered the difficulties of the language, has proportionally mastered the difficulties of the language, has proportionally mastered the difficulties of the wit and poetry of a Greek poet, and has any sympathy to impart to the alert and heroic reader.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)