station quotes

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station.

-Joseph Addison
  Cato, act 4, sc.1, l.319^21.

The musical equivalent of the towers of St Pancras Station.

- SirThomas Beecham
Of Elgar's First Symphony. Quoted in Neville Cardus Sir Thomas Beecham (1961).

'Eternity' is there, We say, as of a station. Meanwhile, he is so near, He joins me in my Ramble Divides abode with me No Friend have I that so persists As this Eternity.

- Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Complete Poems, no.1684 (first published1914).

Type of a coming nation, In the land of cattle and sheep, Worked on Middleton's station, 'Pound a week and his keep.'

- Henry Hertzberg Lawson
'Middleton's Rouseabout', collected in Colin Roderick (ed) Henry Lawson: Collected Verse (3 vols,1967^9).

I keep no rank nor station. Cured, I am frizzled, stale and small.

- RobertTraill Spence,Jr Lowell
  'Home  After Three Months  Away'.