
“So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.”
Source: A Study in Scarlet
Interview with Paul Zollo in 1988 https://americansongwriter.com/2014/01/american-icons-pete-seeger/
“So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.”
Source: A Study in Scarlet
"Communism and New Economic Policy",(April 1921)
1920s
“The strength of a chain is the strength of its weakest link.”
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The Furrow (1986)
“An aphorism is the last link in a long chain of thought.”
Ein Aphorismus ist der letzte Ring einer langen Gedankenkette.
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 19.
“Oh! frail are the many links that are
In the chain of affection's tender care”
The Golden Violet - The Ring
The Golden Violet (1827)
“There are three iron links in the neurotic's chain: unloving, unlovable, unloved.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis
“A good corroborating chain, if they fail in the last link, the whole will fall to the ground.”
Wilkes v. Wood (1763), Lofft. 12.
“Supply the link, and earth with Heaven will join
In one continued chain of endless life.”
Poetry quotes, New Thought Pastels (1913)
Context: Between the finite and the infinite
The missing link of Love has left a void.
Supply the link, and earth with Heaven will join
In one continued chain of endless life.
The Way (1913).