Famous quotes containing the words pursuing, thinking and/or imbued:
“Certainly it was ordained as a scourge upon the pride of human wisdom, that the wisest of us all, should thus outwit ourselves, and eternally forego our purposes in the intemperate act of pursuing them.”
—Laurence Sterne (17131768)
“Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.”
—John Jay Chapman (18621933)
“they remained free in the heavenly chasm,
remained angels, but dreaming angels,
each imbued with the mysteries of the other.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
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