Sule Pagoda Road

Famous quotes containing the words sule, pagoda and/or road:

““I am a man upo the lan,
An’ I am a silkie in the sea,
And when I’m far and far frae lan,
My dwelling is in Sule Skerrie.””
—Unknown. The Great Silkie of Sule Skerry (l. 9–12)

“One is sick at heart of this pagoda worship. It is like the beating of gongs in a Hindoo subterranean temple.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Future contingents cannot be certain to us, because we know them as such. They can be certain only to God whose understanding is in eternity above time. Just as a man going along a road does not see those who come after him; but the man who sees the whole road from a height sees all those who are going along the road at the same time.”
—Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–1274)