Assails Quotes
14 quotes by 13 authors
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The gist of the matter is this: Every impression that comes in from without, be it a sentence which we hear, an object of vision,…
— William James
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No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots…
— Seneca the Younger
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The Jew...is not content merely to destroy Christianity, but he preaches the gospel of Judaism; he not only assails the Catholic or the Protestant faith,…
— Bernard Lazare
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No specter assails us in more varied disguises than loneliness, and one of its most impenetrable masks is called love.
— Arthur Schnitzler
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Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks.
— Ovid
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The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to…
— Alexander Pope
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The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves.
— Seneca the Younger
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A philosophy that begins in doubt assails what no-one believes, and invites us to nothing believable
— Roger Scruton
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The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with…
— Havelock Ellis
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By means of all created things, without excaption, the divine assails us, penetrates us, and molds us. We imagined it as distant and inaccessible, when…
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Socialism needs to pull down wealth; liberalism seeks to raise up poverty. Socialism would destroy private interests, Liberalism would preserve [them] ... by reconciling them…
— Winston Churchill
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Love is influenced by no consideration, recognizes no restraints of reason, and is of the same nature as death, that assails alike the lofty palaces…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Loneliness and rootlessness are just symptoms of an insecurity that assails us all when hitting this midlife moment. The world appears intent on blanking you…
— Mariella Frostrup
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I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed…
— John Bright
Who Wrote These Assails Quotes
13 authors contributed a total of 14 Assails Quotes as follows: