Gate Quotes
409 quotes by 313 authors
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The evening sky was streaked with purple, the color of torn plums, and a light rain had started to fall when I came to the…
— James Lee
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The irrevocable Hand That opes the year's fair gate, doth ope and shut The portals of our earthly destinies; We walk through blindfold, and the…
— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
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The way to heaven is too steep, too narrow for men to dance in and keep revel rout. No way is large or smooth enough…
— William Prynne
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This is so rich a country that luxury has developed at the expense of necessities, and even the destitute partake of the luxury. We are…
— Dorothy Day
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Isn't that ridiculous to show Peter standing at the gates of Heaven with a ring of keys? The doors are already unlocked for us, all…
— David Berg
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Death is the gate of life. Ingratitude is the soul's enemy... Ingratitude is a burning wind that dries up the source of love, the dew…
— Bernard of Clairvaux
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Open thy gate of mercy, gracious God, My soul flies through these wounds to seek out thee.
— William Shakespeare
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Back on its golden hinges The gate of Memory swings, And my heart goes into the garden And walks with the olden things.
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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What boots it at one gate to make defence, And at another to let in the foe?
— John Milton
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The spring's already at the gate With looks my care beguiling; The country round appeareth straight A flower-garden smiling.
— Heinrich Heine
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The forehead is the gate of the mind.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The Great Way has no gate; / there are a thousand paths to it. / If you pass through the barrier, / you walk the…
— Wumen Huikai
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It has been said that self-respect is the gate of heaven, and the most cursory observation shows that a degree of reserve adds vastly to…
— Henry Theodore Tuckerman
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You can find your way across this country using burger joint the way a navigatior uses stars....We have munched Bridge burgers in the shadow of…
— Charles Kuralt
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Let me arise and open the gate, / to breathe the wild warm air of the heath...
— Violet Fane
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Rules help govern and steer a relationship along, so they're good things. But they become bad things when they become the narrow gate though which…
— Miroslav Volf
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If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don't believe there are any…
— Louisa May Alcott
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On the king's gate the moss grew gray;The king came not. They called him deadAnd made his eldest son one daySlave in his father's stead.
— Helen Hunt Jackson
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Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate. The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how…
— Al Franken
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Maybe you weren't born with a silver spoon in your mouth, but like every American, you carry a deed to 635 million acres of public…
— John Garamendi
Who Wrote These Gate Quotes
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