Mark Twain Quotes, Heart Quotes, Land Quotes

[Patriotism] ...is a word which always commemorates a robbery. There isn't a foot of land in the world which doesn't represent the ousting and re-ousting of a longline of successive "owners" who each in turn, as "patriots" with proud swelling hearts defended it against the next gang of "robbers" who came to steal it and did -- and became swelling-hearted patriots in their turn.

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The land-grant university system is being built on behalf of the people, who have invested in these public universities their hopes, their support, and their confidence.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Land Quotes , People Quotes

Evening had fallen. A rim of the young moon cleft the pale waste of sky line, the rim of a silver hoop embedded in grey sand: and the tide was flowing in fast to the land with a low whisper of her waves, islanding a few last figures in distant pools.

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How strange! You seek guidance, yet you do not tread its path, surely a boat does not sail on land.

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The Land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.

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Where Napoleon failed, I shall succeed, I shall land on the shores of Britain.

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Rebellion in this land shall lose his sway, meeting the check of such another day.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Land Quotes , Another Day Quotes

It has been proved that the land can exist without the country - and be better for it; it has not been proved ... that the country can exist without the land.

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Country Quotes , Land Quotes

Come o'er the eastern hills, and let our winds Kiss thy perfumed garments; let us taste Thy morn and evening breath; scatter thy pearls Upon our love-sick land that mourns for thee.

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Tags : William Blake Quotes , Kissing Quotes , Land Quotes

POETRY, n. A form of expression peculiar to the Land beyond the Magazines.

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It is true that we aspire to our ancient land. But what we want in that ancient land is a new blossoming of the Jewish spirit.

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Tags : Theodor Herzl Quotes , Land Quotes , Want Quotes

The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind.

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Any relation to the land, the habit of tilling it, or mining it, or even hunting on it, generates the feeling of patriotism. He who keeps shop on it, or he who merely uses it as a support to his desk and ledger, or to his manufactory, values it less.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Hunting Quotes , Land Quotes

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Death Quotes , Land Quotes

A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations, all fall, but the noise remains, and will reach to other generations.

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Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , Fall Quotes , Land Quotes

A literal interpretation of the Gita lands one in a sea of contradictions.

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If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace

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Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Cutting Quotes , Land Quotes

There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage.

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Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Land Quotes , Foundation Quotes

America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.

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