“Never king dropped out of the clouds.”
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Table Talk (1689)
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“Ships dim-discovered dropping from the clouds.”
Source: The Seasons (1726-1730), Summer (1727), l. 946.
“The hooded clouds, like friars,
Tell their beads in drops of rain.”
Midnight Mass, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“You couldn't drop me! You never dropped me.”
Words spoken to Sugar Ray Robinson after their sixth fight, 1951. http://www.freeinfosociety.com/site.php?postnum=355
in interview with nl:Ischa Meyer, c. 1988
quote c. 1988 - from ('RM'), 157; p. 41
Karel Appel, a gesture of colour' (1992/2009)
“Desire makes slaves out of kings, and patience makes kings out of slaves.”
al-Ghazali https://awakenthegreatnesswithin.com/35-inspirational-imam-al-ghazali-quotes-on-success/
Ben Yamen's Song of Geometry (1853)
Context: Ascend with me above the dust, above the cloud, to the realms of the higher geometry, where the heavens are never clouded; where there is no impure vapour, and no delusive or imperfect observation, where the new truths are already arisen, while they are yet dimly dawning on the world below; where the earth is a little planet; where the sun has dwindled to a star; where all the stars are lost in the Milky Way to which they belong; where the Milky Way is seen floating through space like any other nebula; where the whole great girdle of nebulae has diminished to an atom and has become as readily and completely submissive to the pen of the geometer, and the slave of his formula, as the single drop, which falls from the clouds, instinct with all the forces of the material world.