Spread Quotes
1576 quotes by 1172 authors
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Our problem is that the climate crisis hatched in our laps at a moment in history when political and social conditions were uniquely hostile to…
— Naomi Klein
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If you work an extra ten hours to help spread the dharma, this will cause for much faster progression. You're doing something for a higher…
— Frederick Lenz
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Books are never harmless...they either strengthen us or they weaken us in our faith. Some of them do this even as they entertain us, others…
— Peter Prange
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A noble soul spreads even over a face in which the architectonic beauty is wanting an irresistible grace, and a often even triumphs over the…
— Friedrich Schiller
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It is not God's way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to be spread to…
— John Henry Newman
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Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his [mankind's] ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation.
— Hans Arp
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The groves were God's first temple. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them,--ere he framed…
— William C. Bryant
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But now I rejoice when, in my winter studio, I can spread out my summer studies and recall through them the beautiful season and places…
— Christopher Pearse Cranch
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Confess yourself to heaven, Repent what's past, avoid what is to come, And do not spread the compost on the weeds To make them ranker.
— William Shakespeare
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Who has a book of all that monarchs do, He's more secure to keep it shut than shown; For vice repeated is like the wand'ring…
— William Shakespeare
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Lastly no woman should marry a teetotaller, or a man who does not smoke. It is not for nothing that this "ignoble tobagie" as Michelet…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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The revolutions of thought which shape the basic outlook of an age are not disseminated through text-books- they spread like epidemics, through contamination by invisible…
— Arthur Koestler
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Listen, sweet Dove, unto my song, And spread thy golden wings in me; Hatching my tender heart so long, Till it get wing, and flie…
— George Herbert
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We bear our shades about us; self-deprived Of other screen, the thin umbrella spread, And range an Indian waste without a tree.
— William Cowper
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Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
— Alexander Pope
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At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist,…
— Alexander Pope
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See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very Tombs now vanish'd…
— Alexander Pope
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No whispered rumours which the many spread can wholly perish.
— Hesiod
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When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.
— Sappho
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All green was anished sae of pine and yew, That still displayed their melancholy hue; Sae the green holly with its berries red, And the…
— George Crabbe
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