Famous quotes containing the word passes:
“Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new comer like a travelling geologist, who passes through our estate, and shows us good slate, or limestone, or anthracite, in our brush pasture.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream?
For these red lips, with all their mournful pride,
Mournful that no new wonder may betide,
Troy passed away in one high funeral gleam,
And Usnas children died.”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“Consciousness is the perception of what passes in a mans own mind. Can another man perceive that I am conscious of any thing, when I perceive it not myself? No mans knowledge here can go beyond his experience.”
—John Locke (16321704)
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