Famous quotes containing the words unexplained, weight and/or loss:
“Youre neither unnatural, nor abominable, nor mad; youre as much a part of what people call nature as anyone else; only youre unexplained as yetyouve not got your niche in creation.”
—Radclyffe Hall (18831943)
“The merit of those who fill a space in the worlds history, who are borne forward, as it were, by the weight of thousands whom they lead, shed a perfume less sweet than do the sacrifices of private virtue.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“The cultivation of one set of faculties tends to the disuse of others. The loss of one faculty sharpens others; the blind are sensitive in touch. Has not the extreme cultivation of the commercial faculty permitted others as essential to national life, to be blighted by disease?”
—J. Ellen Foster (18401910)