"It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier……" — Edward Dahlberg
"It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination."
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Edward Dahlberg
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57 Quotes by Edward Dahlberg
Edward Dahlberg has 57 quotes on this site.
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We are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent destroys the family, and makes us wild, touchless…
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We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.
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There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the…
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What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck,…
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One cat in a house is a sign of loneliness.
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No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.
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Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against…
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Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either…
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The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce…
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I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man.
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We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even…
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The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace,…
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More Cower Quotes
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one of 24 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Democracy is stronger than terrorism, and we will not cower to the terrorists' campaign of fear.
— John Doolittle
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Until we go through it ourselves, until our people cower in the shelters of New York, Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles…
— William L. Shirer
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I have a really difficult time watching myself on film. I literally cower in my seat and cover my face.
— Brooklyn Decker
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I don't want to live in a world where the strong rule and the weak cower. I'd rather make a…
— Jim Butcher
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How many more times are we going to cower under tables and chairs, whimpering like mindless dogs, thinking that someone…
— Ted Nugent
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Fear never wrote a symphony or poem, negotiated a peace treaty, or cured a disease. Fear never pulled a family…
— Max Lucado
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The gaps are the thing. The gaps are the spirit's one home, the altitudes and latitudes so dazzlingly spare and…
— Annie Dillard
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I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat
— Dean Alfange
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It was one of those somber evenings when the sighing of the wind resembles the moans of a dying man;…
— Alfred de Musset
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Virtue cannot dwell with slaves, nor reign O'er those who cower to take a tyrant's yoke.
— William C. Bryant
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Most bands, if something goes wrong, they cower and walk off stage and fire people.
— Tom DeLonge
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As long as the firmament of the You is spread over me, the tempests of causality cower at my heels,…
— Martin Buber
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