"In the presence of the storm, thunderbolts, hurricane,……" — Henryk Sienkiewicz
"In the presence of the storm, thunderbolts, hurricane, rain, darkness, and the lions, which might be concealed but a few paces away, he felt disarmed and helpless."
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Henryk Sienkiewicz
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20 Quotes by Henryk Sienkiewicz
Henryk Sienkiewicz has 20 quotes on this site.
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Evidently the merit depends on the result of the work.
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England is never in a hurry because she is eternal.
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On an exhausted field, only weeds grow.
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There is within us a moral instinct which forbids us to rejoice at the death of even an enemy.
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This homage has been rendered not to me - for the Polish soil is fertile and does not lack better…
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But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long…
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The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream.
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It has been said that Poland is dead, exhausted, enslaved, but here is the proof of her life and triumph.
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Amid the stillness of the night, in the depths of the ravine, from the direction in which the corpses lay…
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The sky is one whole, the water another; and between those two infinities the soul of man is in loneliness.
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Day is like day as two beads in a rosary, unless changes of weather form the only variety.
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The shots had dispersed the birds; there remained only two marabous, standing between ten and twenty paces away and plunged…
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More Concealed Quotes
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A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to…
— Honore de Balzac
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A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and…
— Joseph Addison
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Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.
— Theodor Adorno
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As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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I feel like when you have an unauthorized police badge and something that looks like it could be a concealed…
— Sandra Bullock
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Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Just as Darwin discovered the law of evolution in organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of evolution in human…
— Friedrich Engels
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No proceeding is better than that which you have concealed from the enemy until the time you have executed it.…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a…
— Blaise Pascal
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Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their…
— Samuel Johnson
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Revelation: a famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Those who bequeath unto themselves a pompous funeral, are at just so much expense to inform the world of something…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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