Special Common

Famous quotes containing the words special and/or common:

    Nature is a setting that fits equally well a comic or a mourning piece. In good health, the air is a cordial of incredible virtue. Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.
    —Bible: New Testament St. Paul, in 1 Timothy, 6:7.

    The words also appear in the Book of Common Prayer, “Burial of the Dead.”