Famous quotes containing the words immediately preceding, sabbath, immediately and/or preceding:
“It is beyond a doubt that during the sixteenth century, and the years immediately preceding and following it, poisoning had been brought to a pitch of perfection which remains unknown to modern chemistry, but which is indisputably proved by history. Italy, the cradle of modern science, was at that time, the inventor and mistress of these secrets, many of which are lost.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)
“Some keep the Sabbath going to church;
I keep it staying at home,”
—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)
“What we do in our dreams we also do when we are awake: we invent and make up the person we are dealing with—and immediately forget that we have done it.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“Very few of our race can be said to be yet finished men. We still carry sticking to us some remains of the preceding inferior quadruped organization. We call these millions men; but they are not yet men. Half-engaged in the soil, pawing to get free, man needs all the music that can be brought to disengage him.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)