Assail Quotes

29 quotes by 28 authors

Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety… — Henry David Thoreau
Little boldness is needed to assail the opinions and practices of notoriously wicked men; but to rebuke great and good men for their conduct, and… — William Lloyd Garrison
Believing that the happiness of mankind is best promoted by the useful pursuits of peace, that on these alone a stable prosperity can be founded,… — Thomas Jefferson
Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills the scholar's life… — Samuel Johnson
In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you.... You… — Abraham Lincoln
The best we can hope for in this life is a knothole peek at the shining realities ahead. Yet a glimpse is enough. It's enough… — Joni Eareckson Tada
Those who would assail the Book of Mormon should bear in mind that its veracity is no more dubious than the veracity of the Bible,… — Jon Krakauer
Doing what is right in the face of adversity is not always easy or popular. Critics may assail you, but the critics don't always realize… — John Ashcroft
Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail. — John Dryden
Labor is rest from the sorrows that greet us; from all the petty vexations that meet us; from the sin-promptings that assail us; from the… — Frances Sargent Osgood
Men ought to know that from nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations. And by… — Hippocrates
Perhaps there will be prattlers who, although completely ignorant of mathematics, nevertheless take it upon themselves to pass judgment on mathematical questions, and on account… — Nicolaus Copernicus
There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron. — Samuel Johnson
There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done, there are thousands to prophesy failure. There are thousands to point out to you, one… — Edgar Guest
I suffer as always from the fear of putting down the first line. It is amazing the terrors, the magics, the prayers, the straitening shyness… — John Steinbeck
Difficulties will assail you only when you lack in concentration and persistence. — Walter J. Phillips
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. — Charlotte Bronte
I had lived in fear of the fabled terrifying visions that assail chronic drinkers, but which had not yet attacked me. — Craig Ferguson
She put her hand on her chest. â€œI have magic yet. If you will set the clock working again, then I must be still. I… — Catherynne M. Valente
As they went by Assail, the male was watching them. "Jesus, he really is blind" Wrath pulled up short and unsheathed his dagger, pointed it… — J R Ward

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