"He was mastered by the sheer surging of……" — Jack London
"He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars."
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95 Quotes by Jack London
Jack London has 95 quotes on this site.
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You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to…
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just…
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I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?
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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the…
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.
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I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze…
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A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold…
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More Aglow Quotes
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For me, the promised land, always seeming just beyond my reach, is the poetic masterpiece, that perfect union of words…
— James Emanuel
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Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.
— Helen Keller
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Churchgoers are like coals in a fire. When they cling together, they keep the flame aglow; when they separate, they…
— Billy Graham
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The gospel teaches us that true beauty is more than skin-deep. A young woman whose countenance is aglow with both…
— Lynn G. Robbins
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Guard your light and protect it. Move it forward into the world and be fully confident that if we connect…
— Hafsat Abiola
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It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, everywhere you go; Take a look in the five-and-ten, glistening once again.…
— Meredith Willson
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Poetic success is when you write a poem that makes you excited and bewildered and aglow.
— Matthea Harvey
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Walking through a crowd, the village is aglow. Kaleidoscope of loud heartbeats, under coats. Everybody here wanted something more. Searching…
— Taylor Swift
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You have to be an artist and a madman, a creature of infinite melancholy, with a bubble of hot poison…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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Dear God, I prayed, all unafraid (as we're inclined to do), I do not need a handsome man but let…
— Ruth Graham
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Our souls were one, if you must know and never shall they be apart; with splendid dawn, your face aglow…
— Nicholas Sparks
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I wonder now whether inner coldness and desolation may not be the pre-condition for making the world believe, by a…
— W G Sebald
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