Charles Dickens Quotes, Blow Quotes, Clouds Quotes

The clouds were flying fast, the wind was coming up in gusts, banging some neighboring shutters that had broken loose, twirling the rusty chimney-cowls and weathercocks, and rushing round and round a confined adjacent churchyard as if it had a mind to blow the dead citizens out of their graves. The low thunder, muttering in all quarters of the sky at once, seemed to threaten vengeance for this attempted desecration, and to mutter, "Let them rest! Let them rest!

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A just fear of an imminent danger, though be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , War Quotes , Blow Quotes

I must have liberty Withal, as large a charter as the wind, To blow on whom I please, for so fools have.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Blow Quotes , Wind Quotes

A man must know how to estimate a sour face. The sour face of the multitude, like thier sweet faces, have no deep cause, but are put on and off as the wind blows and the newspaper directs.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Sweet Quotes , Blow Quotes

Other times when I hear the wind blow I feel that just hearing the wind blow makes it worth being born.

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Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow: Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Moving Quotes , Blow Quotes

A breath of will blows eternally through the universe of souls in the direction of Right and Necessity. It is the air which all intellects inhale and exhale, and it is the wind which blows the worlds into order and orbit.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Blow Quotes , Air Quotes

The last trumpet ever to be sounded shall blow even algebra to wreck.

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Who ever lives looking for pleasure only, his senses uncontrolled, immoderate in his enjoyments, idle and weak, the tempter will certainly overcome him, as the wind blows down a weak tree.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Blow Quotes , Wind Quotes

O power of fantasy that steals our minds from things outside, to leave us unaware, although a thousand trumpets may blow loud--what stirs you if the senses show you nothing? Light stirs you, formed in Heaven, by itself, or by His will Who sends it down to us.

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Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Blow Quotes , Light Quotes

I, for my part, acknowledge another precept which says that man must deal the final blow to those whose downfall is destined by God.

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Tags : Adolf Hitler Quotes , Blow Quotes , Men Quotes

How has all the knowledge in the world been gained but by the concentration of the powers of the mind? The world is ready to give up its secrets if we only know how to knock, how to give it the necessary blow. The strength and force of the blow come through concentration. There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point; that is the secret.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Giving Up Quotes , Blow Quotes

We are Christians and Catholics not because we worship a key, but because we have passed a door; and felt the wind that is the trumpet of liberty blow over the land of the living.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Christian Quotes , Blow Quotes

A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.

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Tags : O. Henry Quotes , Blow Quotes , Air Quotes

Earth is dry to the centre, But spring, a new comer, A spring rich and strange, Shall make the winds blow Round and round, Thro' and thro', Here and there, Till the air And the ground Shall be fill'd with life anew.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Spring Quotes , Blow Quotes

If after every tempest come such calms, May the winds blow till they have waken'd death!

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Blow Quotes , Wind Quotes

At the round earth's imagined corners, blow your trumpets, angels.

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While the future is unknowable, the winds always blow in the direction of human progress.

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Now in this island of Atlantis there was a great and wonderful empire which had rule over the whole island and several others, and over parts of the continent and, furthermore, the men of Atlantis had subjected the parts of Libya within the columns of Heracles as far as Egypt, and of Europe as far as Tyrrhenia.This vast power, gathered into one, endeavored to subdue at a blow our country and yours and the whole of the region within the straits, and then, Solon, your country shone forth, in the excellence of her virtue and strength, among all mankind.

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Tags : Plato Quotes , Country Quotes , Blow Quotes

I confess my belief in the common man.... The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.... The man who is in the melee knows what blows are being struck and what blood is being drawn.

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