James Sheridan Knowles Quotes:
Ocupation: Dramatist
Life: May 12, 1784 - November 30, 1862
Birthday: May 12
Death: November 30
The longest time that man may live, The lapse of generations of his race, The continent entire of time itself, Bears not proportion to Eternity; Huge as a fraction of a grain of dew Co-measured with the broad, unbounded ocean! There is the time of man--his proper time, Looking at which this life is but a gust, A puff of breath, that's scarcely felt ere gone!
source: James Sheridan Knowles (1838). “The Maid of Mariendorpt: A Play, in Five Acts”, p.107
topic: Ocean, Men, Race, Proper Time
