Famous quotes containing the word wasted:
“For Nature is the noblest engineer, yet uses a grinding economy, working up all that is wasted to-day into to-morrows creation;Mnot a superfluous grain of sand, for all the ostentation she makes of expense and public works.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“Books are for the scholars idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other mens transcripts of their readings.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.”
—Alexander Herzen (18121870)
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