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Thunder Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept or if you have…
- Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders, so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
- What you do thunders above your head so loudly, I cannot hear the words you speak.
- [A]s if life were a thunder-storm wherein you can see by a flash the horizon, and then cannot see your hand....
- Let us not look east and west for materials of conversation, but rest in presence and unity. A just feeling will fast enough supply fuel…
- In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself; when consciously he makes himself the mere tongue of…
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- Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man… — Joseph Addison
- Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind - listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody. — Eubie Blake
- I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies. — Eden Ahbez
- There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- God may thunder His commands from Mount Sinai and men may fear, yet remain at heart exactly as they were before. But… — John Bertram Phillips
- For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm,… — Frederick Douglass
- A white crowned night sparrow sings as the moon sets. Thunder growls far off. Our campfire is a single light. Amongst a… — Kenneth Rexroth
- Kiss me with rain on your eyelashes, come on, let us sway together, under the trees, and to hell with thunder. — Edwin Morgan
- BRANDY, n. A cordial composed on one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remorse, two parts bloody murder, one part death-hell-and-the-grave and four parts… — Ambrose Bierce
- Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful stroke! — Walt Whitman
- Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder… — Seneca the Younger