Emma Lazarus Quotes

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• Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore, send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed,…
• Still ours the dance, the feast, the glorious Psalm, The mystic lights of emblem, and the Word.
• Life's sharpest rapture is surcease of pain.
• Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt.
• My own curiosity and interest are insatiable.
• Thick February mists cling heavily To the dead earth and to each leafless tree, And closer down upon the hilltops draw, Dull forecasts there of…
• I am never going to write for the sake of writing.
• Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A…
• Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
• Until we are all free, we are none of us free.
• I am perfectly conscious that this contempt and hatred underlies the general tone of the community towards us, and yet when I even remotely hint…
• The particular article ought in my opinion to be treated with absolute contempt. It is too vile to touch.
• Kindle the taper like the steadfast star Ablaze on evening's forehead o'er the earth, And add each night a lustre till afar An eightfold splendor…

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