Famous quotes containing the word sweeps:
“A servant with this clause
Makes drudgery divine:
Who sweeps a room as for Thy laws
Makes that and th action fine.”
—George Herbert (15931633)
“Roll forth, my song, like the rushing river,
That sweeps along to the mighty sea;”
—James Clarence Mangan (18031849)
“All at once
A fresher wind sweeps by, and breaks my dream,
And I am in the wilderness alone.”
—William Cullen Bryant (17941878)