Blind Quote by Sir Walter Scott

Thou and I are but the blind instruments of some irresistible fatality, that hurries us along, like goodly vessels driving before the storm, which…

— Walter Scott

“Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Steep are the seas and savaging and cold In broken waters terrible to try; And vast against the winter night the wold, And harbourless…

— Hilaire Belloc

“Ever reviled, accursed,-n'er understood, Thou art the grisly terror of our age. "Wreck of all order," cry the multitude, "Art thou, and war and…

— Peter Kropotkin

“The Lover Compareth his State to a Ship in Perilous Storm Tossed on the Sea My galley chargèd with forgetfulness Thorough sharp seas, in…

— Thomas Wyatt

“No, thou art come too late, Empedocles! And the world hath the day, and must break thee, Not thou the world. With men thou…

— Matthew Arnold

“Our separation so abides, and flies, That thou, residing here, go'st yet with me, And I, hence fleeting, here remain with thee.”

— William Shakespeare

“My galley, charged with forgetfulness, Thorough sharp seas in winter nights doth pass 'Tween rock and rock; and eke mine enemy, alas, That is…

— Thomas Wyatt

“for Thou hast formed us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless till they find rest in Thee.”

— Augustine of Hippo

“Ever reviled, accursed, ne'er understood, Thou art the grisly terror of our age. "Wreck of all order," cry the multitude, "Art thou, & war…

— John Henry Mackay

“O holy and blessed dame, the perpetuall comfort of humane kind, who by thy bounty and grace nourishest all the world, and hearest a…

— Lucius Apuleius

“Couldst thou in vision see, thyself the man God meant, thou never then could be, the man thou art content.”

— Augustus Strong