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 mans shoulders. I must get off him first, that he may pursue his contemplations too.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Vanquished in life, his death
By beauty made amends:
The passing of his breath
Won his defeated ends.”
—Lionel Pigot Johnson (18671902)
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