Sitting Mp Defeated

Famous quotes containing the words sitting and/or defeated:

“If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not do pursue them sitting upon another man’s shoulders. I must get off him first, that he may pursue his contemplations too.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Vanquished in life, his death
By beauty made amends:
The passing of his breath
Won his defeated ends.”
—Lionel Pigot Johnson (1867–1902)