Swells Quotes
56 quotes by 53 authors
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Then sleep the seasons, full of might; While slowly swells the pod, And rounds the peach, and in the night The mushroom bursts the sod.…
— Coventry Patmore
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As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm,- Though round its breast the rolling clouds…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Before the bud swells, before the grass springs, before the plough is started, comes the sugar harvest. It is sequel of the bitter frost; a…
— John Burroughs
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The February sunshine steeps your boughs and tints the buds and swells the leaves within.
— William C. Bryant
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We sail across dominions barely seen, washed by the swells of time. We plow through fields of magnetism. Past and future come together on thunderheads…
— Norman Mailer
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For me the whole world is like a gigantic theater in which I am the only spectator without opera glasses. The orchestra plays the prelude…
— Isaac Babel
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Without good humour, learning and bravery can only confer that superiority which swells the heart of the lion in the desert, where he roars without…
— Samuel Johnson
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When my heart is cold and I cannot pray as I should I scourge myself with the thought of the impiety and ingratitude of my…
— Martin Luther
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The smell of the sea, of kelp and fish and bitter moving water, rose stronger in my nostrils. It flooded my consciousness like an ancestral…
— Ross Macdonald
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The next time we met was at Appomattox, and the first thing that General Grant said to me when we stepped inside, placing his hand…
— James Longstreet
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At Earth's great market where Joy is trafficked in, Buy while thy purse yet swells with golden Youth.
— Alan Seeger
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I don't know who named them swells. There's nothing swell about them. They should have named them awfuls.
— Hugo Vihlen
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What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can…
— Mark Twain
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The meanest flowret of the vale, / The simplest note that swells the gale, / The common sun, the air, and skies, / To him…
— Thomas Gray
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Nature's ways are wonderful and unfathomable. The grain swells in the soil, the sprout grows and flowers when the time comes and then it bears…
— Martiros Saryan
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Toil of science swells the wealth of art.
— Friedrich Schiller
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The press, that goiter of the world, swells up with the desire for conquest and bursts with the achievements which every day brings. A week…
— Karl Kraus
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My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.
— Horace
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Compassion and shame come over one who considers how precarious is the origin of the proudest of living beings: often the smell of a lately…
— Pliny the Elder
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When the Sun sets, shadows, that shew'd at Noon But small, appear most long and terrible; So, when we think Fate hovers o'er our Heads,…
— John Dryden
Who Wrote These Swells Quotes
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