A Quote by Francis Quarles

We sack, we ransack to the utmost sands Of native kingdoms, and of foreign lands: We travel sea and soil; we pry, and prowl, We progress, and we prog from pole to pole.

Francis Quarles

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Foreign Foreign Land Foreign Lands Kingdoms Lands Native Pole Progress Pry Sack Sands Sea Soil Travel Utmost

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Francis Quarles
English - Poet
May 8, 1592 - September 8, 1644

There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.

A. A. Milne

Running into a pole is a drag, but never being allowed to run into a pole is a disaster.

Daniel Kish

Everything happening at the South Pole, like the North Pole, has repercussions everywhere on the planet.

Albert II, Prince of Monaco

Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Sabine gestured to him with the half-eaten crust. "I like him. Not sure why he's wasting his time with the pole dancer, though." Tod laughed out loud and I groaned. "Sophie takes ballet and jazz. She's not a pole dancer." "There's more money in pole dancing," Sabine insisted.

Rachel Vincent

I never thought that one day that this NAS Jax would be the center of aviation excellence in the Southeast and from pole to pole.

Ander Crenshaw

If I could reach from pole to pole or grasp the ocean with a span, I would be measured by the soul The mind's the standard of the Man.

Isaac Watts

This life's dim windows of the soul Distorts the heavens from pole to pole And leads you to believe a lie When you see with, not through, the eye.

William Blake

And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.

Matthew Arnold

For a traveler going from any place toward the north, that pole of the daily rotation gradually climbs higher, while the opposite pole drops down an equal amount.

Nicolaus Copernicus

I have an opportunity now with some of the projects I've done, i.e. the North Pole and the South Pole, to speak to a larger audience and talk about things that have nothing to do with physical education or special ed.

Ann Bancroft

It's a product of two poles - there's the pole of the one who makes the work, and the pole of the one who looks at it. I give the latter as much importance as the one who makes it.

Marcel Duchamp

I grew up playing in the streets. We played two-hand touch from street pole to street pole. That's how I learned the game.

Malcolm Jenkins

Light black. From pole to pole.

Samuel Beckett

Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole