Sweep Quotes
251 quotes by 230 authors
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The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us.…
— Gaston Bachelard
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The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow…
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control…
— Lord Byron
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Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let…
— Dale Carnegie
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He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lives a great street-sweeper who did…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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And this is the time. It is the time for this land to become again a witness to the world for what is noble and…
— George McGovern
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Just when the truth about life sinks in, His truth starts to surface. He takes us by the hand and dares us not to sweep…
— Max Lucado
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Love can sweep you off your feet and carry you along in a way you've never known before. But the ride always ends, and you…
— Jack Handey
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Sweep away the clutter of things that complicate our lives.
— Henry David Thoreau
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No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories and common notions,…
— Francis Bacon
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Historical refutation as the definitive refutation.- In former times, one sought to prove that there is no God - today one indicates how the belief…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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If gun laws in fact worked, the sponsors of this type of legislation should have no difficulty drawing upon long lists of examples of criminal…
— Orrin Hatch
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Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of "emergency". It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini. In the collectivist sweep over…
— Herbert Hoover
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If a person sweeps streets for a living, he should sweep them as Michelangelo painted, as Beethoven composed, as Shakespear wrote.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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So sweep away the sand an' dry the ocean, an' just pack the moon an' stars up in a cardboard box. And stop the clouds…
— Kenny Rogers
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Wars between states and people seem to have existed under all historical systems for as long as we have some recorded evidence. War is quite…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities - a willing movement of a man's soul…
— George Eliot
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And in that narrow cockpit I wept, as I shall never weep again, when I felt the concrete brush against his wheels and, with a…
— Pierre Clostermann
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We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground; we must suppose all the covering of moss and…
— Adam Sedgwick
Who Wrote These Sweep Quotes
230 authors contributed a total of 251 Sweep Quotes, led by these top contributors: