Time, that takes survey of all the world,
Must have a stop. [ William Shakespeare ]

Let Observation, with extensive view,
Survey mankind from China to Peru;
Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife,
And watch the busy scenes of crowded life. [ Dr. Johnson ]

When we mean to build,
We first survey the plot, then draw the model;
And when we see the figure of the house,
Then must we rate the cost of the erection;
Which if we find outweighs ability.
What do we then, but draw anew the model
In fewer offices; or, at least, desist
To build at all? [ William Shakespeare ]

Turn to the press - its teeming sheets survey,
Big with the wonders of each passing day;
Births, deaths, and weddings, forgeries, fires and wrecks.
Harangues and hailstones, brawls and broken necks. [ Sprague ]

The gods from heaven survey the fatal strife, and mourn the miseries of human life. [ Dryden ]

God gave man an upright countenance to survey the heavens, and to look upward to the stars. [ Ovid ]

O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea. Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free, Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam. Survey our empire, and behold our home! [ Byron ]