Throng Quotes
30 quotes by 29 authors
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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was…
— Saint Augustine
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Wide open and unguarded stand our gates And through them presses a wild motley throng Men from the Volga and the Tartar steppes Featureless figures…
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.
— Benjamin Cardozo
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Nothing impresses the mind with a deeper feeling of loneliness than to tread the silent and deserted scene of former throng and pageant.
— Washington Irving
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Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie, but rather mourn the apathetic, throng the coward and the meek who see the world's…
— Ralph Chaplin
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At 8 o'clock in the morning a dense throng of workers - almost 10,000 - assembled in the square, which the police had already occupied…
— Paul Frolich
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So once in every year we throng Upon a day apart, to praise the Lord with feast and song in thankfulness of heart.
— Arthur Guiterman
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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us,…
— Oscar Wilde
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As artists, we belong to an ancient and holy tribe. We are the carriers of the truth that spirit moves through us all. When we…
— Julia Cameron
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A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands…
— John Milton
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Fairies, arouse! Mix with your song Harplet and pipe, Thrilling and clear, Swarm on the boughs! Chant in a throng! Morning is ripe, Waiting to…
— William Allingham
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I soon began to dream. ... I heard subdued sobs, as if a number of people were weeping. ... I left my bed and wandered…
— Abraham Lincoln
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No man is much regarded by the rest of the world. He that considers how little he dwells upon the condition of others, will learn…
— Samuel Johnson
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In tears I tossed my coin from Trevi's edge. A coin unsordid as a bond of love-- And, with the instinct of the homing dove,…
— Robert Underwood Johnson
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Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Amory wondered how people could fail to notice that he was a boy marked for glory, and when faces of the throng turned toward him…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Fear is the loneliest feeling. You can be in a throng of people, but if you're afraid, you're on your own.
— Michelle Paver
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We all need one another; much and often. Just as every human creature needs a place to be alone in, a sacred, private "home" of…
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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And travellers, now, within that valley, Through the red-litten windows see Vast forms, that move fantastically To a discordant melody, While, like a ghastly rapid…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. Perjury, perjury,…
— William Shakespeare
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