Famous quotes containing the word quiet:
“Young soul put off your flesh, and come
With me into the quiet tomb,
Our bed is lovely, dark, and sweet;
The earth will swing us, as she goes,
Beneath our coverlid of snows,”
—Thomas Lovell Beddoes (18031849)
“The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich mans abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“It whispered to the fields of corn,
Bow down, and hail the coming morn.
It shouted through the belfry tower,
Awake, O bell! proclaim the hour.
It crossed the churchyard with a sigh,
And said, Not yet! in quiet lie.”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (18091882)