Careful Words

limits (n.)

limits (adj.)

Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate,

Beneath the good how far,—but far above the great.

Thomas Gray (1716-1771): The Progress of Poesy. III. 3, Line 16.

For stony limits cannot hold love out.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Romeo and Juliet. Act ii. Sc. 2.