“The world -- this shadow of the soul, or other me, lies wide around. Its attractions are the keys which unlock my… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The boy may wrestle, when Night--working Fancy steals him to the arms Of nymph oft wish'd awake, and, 'mid the rage Of… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
The followers of Christ have been called to peace. . . . And they must not only have peace but make it.… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The bodies of those that made such a noise and tumult when alive, when dead, lie as quietly among the graves of… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
So briefly do we raise our heads, so quick sink back. For a moment we are lifted by a wave of time,… — Allen Wheelis Copy Share Image
In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
The fine emotions whence our lives we mold Lie in the earthly tumult dumb and cold. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The tumults in America I expected would have produced in Europe an unfavorable opinion of our political state. But it has not.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I think the fact that we have been focussing on politics quite a lot and the tumult of politics rather than what… — Yitzhak Rabin Copy Share Image
We have too much legislating by clamor, by tumult, by pressure. Representative government ceases when outside influence of any kind is substituted… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
In the din and tumult of the age, the still small voice of Jerusalem remains our only music. — Israel Zangwill Copy Share Image
If an angel should be winged from Heaven, on an errand of mercy to our country, the first accents that would glow… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
There be three sorts of government--monarchical, aristocratical, democratical; and they are apt to fall three several ways into ruin--the first, by tyranny;… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
We enter our studies, and enjoy a society which we alone can bring together. We raise no jealousy by conversing with one… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The summer day was spoiled with fitful storm; At night the wind died and the soft rain dropped; With lulling murmur, and… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
“It was strange though, that after that whole build-up, after the last bastion of "mustn't get in his vehicles", of being warned,… — Anna Burns Copy Share Image
Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reform. The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible… — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
Get but the truth once uttered, and 'tis like A star new-born that drops into its place And which, once circling in… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The early months of marriage often are times of critical tumult,--whether that of a shrimp pool or of deeper water,--which afterwards subside… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
If there is any one thing most needed in this time of tumult and frustration, when men and women and youth and… — Ann M. Dibb Copy Share Image
Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public men, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
