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When fear enters the heart of a man at hearing the names of candidates and the reading of laws that are proposed, then is the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Again, now, now, again Plashes the rain in heavy gouts, The crinkled lightning Seems ever brightening... And loud and long Again the thunder shouts His… — James Russell Lowell
And how should a beautiful, ignorant stream of water know it heads for an early release â€” out across the desert, running toward the Gulf,… — Carl Sandburg
It was a murky confusion â€” here and there blotted with a color like the color of the smoke from damp fuel â€” of flying… — Charles Dickens
Riddle of destiny, who can show What thy short visit meant, or know What thy errand here below? — Charles Lamb
Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I seek, the heaven above And the road below me. — Robert Louis Stevenson
The first who attracts the eye, the first in enlightenment, in power and in happiness, is the white man, the European, man par excellence; below… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Suffering is above, not below. And everyone thinks that suffering is below. And everyone wants to rise. — Antonio Porchia
In heaven above, And earth below, they best can serve true gladness Who meet most feelingly the calls of sadness. — William Wordsworth
Our psychological reality, which lies below the surface, frightens us because it endlessly surprises us and drives us in a direction which society's rules and… — Anais Nin
Life is a journey up a spiral staircase; as we grow older we cover the ground covered we have covered before, only higher up; as… — William Butler Yeats
Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it. — Logan Pearsall Smith
On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below. — Thornton Wilder
The leaves did not stir on the trees, grasshoppers chirruped, and the monotonous hollow sound of the sea rising up from below, spoke of the… — Anton Chekhov
If you go to Minnesota in January, you should know that it's gonna be cold. You don't panic when the thermometer falls below zero. — Peter Lynch
Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country. Why did we look up for blessing -- instead of around, and down? What… — Ursula K. Le Guin
We must love stupid people better than ourselves; are they not the really unfortunate ones of this world? Do not people without taste and without… — George Sand
It goes without saying that when you're the manager of a Premiership club, you go eight miles down the road and get beaten by a… — Kevin Keegan
The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the… — Douglas Coupland
How ironical that it is by means of speech that man can degrade himself below the level of dumb creation -- for a chatterbox is… — Soren Kierkegaard

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