"I once had a sparrow alight upon my……" — Henry David Thoreau

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• The Flag still floats unblotted with defeat! But ah the blood that keeps its ripples red, The starry lives that… — Rupert Hughes
• On each race is laid the duty to keep alight its own lamp of mind as its part in the… — Rabindranath Tagore
• O Jesus, come back into our society, our family life, our souls and reign there as our peaceful Sovereign. Enlighten… — Pope John XXIII
• Amanda Petrusich’s fascinating and insightful journey into the arcane netherworld of 78 records and its bring-‘em-back-alive collectors brims with the… — Lenny Kaye
• It is the English-speaking nations who, almost alone, keep alight the torch of Freedom. — Winston Churchill
• Close your senses and the imagination comes alive. It's inside us all, dulled by endless television reruns and by a… — Tahir Shah
• Let my soul, a shining tree, Silver branches lift towards thee, Where on a hallowed winter's night The clear-eyed angels… — Siegfried Sassoon
• When you find your purpose, it is like your heart has been set alight with passion. You know it absolutely,… — Rhonda Byrne
• All great leaders since Moses have known that a feared enemy must be crushed completely. (Sometimes they have learned this… — Robert Greene
• One little bird not larger than a sparrow, it may have been a Phalarope, would alight on the turbulent surface… — Henry David Thoreau
• Set a beggar on horse backe, they saie, and hee will neuer alight. — Robert Greene
• The road comes to an end just when it ought to be getting somewhere. The passengers alight, shaken and weary,… — Stephen Leacock

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