Famous quotes containing the word purposes:
“His purposes will ripen fast,
Unfolding evry hour;
The bud may have a bitter taste,
But sweet will be the flowr.”
—William Cowper (17311800)
“Virtuous people are simply those who have ... not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them.”
—Isadora Duncan (18781927)
“O, I am smitten with a hatchets jaw;
And that in deed and not in word alone.
chorus: I thought I heard a sound within the house
Unlike the voice of one that jumps for joy.
He splits my skull, not in a friendly way,
Once more: he purposes to kill me dead”
—A.E. (Alfred Edward)
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