Measure

Famous quotes containing the word measure:

“Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself,
It provokes me forever, it says sarcastically,
Walt you contain enough, why don’t you let it out then?”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

“To measure life learn thou betimes, and know
Toward solid good what leads the nearest way;
For other things mild Heaven a time ordains,

And disapproves that care, though wise in show,
That with superfluous burden loads the day,
And, when God sends a cheerful hour, refrains.”
—John Milton (1608–1674)

“The measure of action is the sentiment from which it proceeds. The greatest action may easily be one of the most private circumstance.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)