Joshua

“Unharmed with naked feet she trod
Upon the hot and burning stars”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Longfellow's Complete Poems: Illustrated

“And like a sunset were her lips,
A stormy sunset on doomed ships”
― William Butler Yeats

“I have often since observed, how incongruous
and irrational the common temper of mankind is, especially of youth, to that reason which ought to guide them in such cases, viz., that they are not ashamed to sin, and yet are ashamed to repent; not ashamed of the action for which they ought justly to be esteemed fools, but are ashamed of the returning, which only can make them be esteemed wise men.”
― Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

“Some alien substance more and more is cleaving
To all the mind conceives of grand and fair;
When this world's Good is won by our achieving,
The Better, then, is named a cheat and snare”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe