Kittredge Gardiner, in Harlot's Ghost : A Novel (1991)
“If they be two, they are two so
As stiff twin compasses are two,
Thy soul the fixt foot, makes no show
To move, but doth, if the other do.”
A Valediction Forbidding Mourning, stanza 7
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English poet 1572–1631Related quotes
“But certain souls cohere. It's rare but possible. But it takes two powerful wills to make it so.”
Source: My Name Is Memory
“Man is a two-footed reasoning animal.”
HOMO EST ANIMAL BIPES RATIONALE
“Two souls in one, two hearts into one heart.”
First Week, Sixth Day. Compare: "Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspir'd", Alexander Pope, The Iliad of Homer, Book xvi, line 267.
La Semaine; ou, Création du monde (1578)
“Conclusion 2:
There's nothing more demonic than two bored twins.
~Signed Tamaki”
Source: Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 2
“Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one!”
Source: Sir William Herschel: His Life and Works (1880), Ch.4 "Life and Works" Footnote: At least one of these telescopes had the principal mirror made of glass instead of metal. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (1803).