"Primeval forests! virgin sod! That Saxon has not……" — Joaquin Miller
"Primeval forests! virgin sod! That Saxon has not ravish'd yet, Lo! peak on peak in stairways set- In stepping stairs that reach to God! Here we are free as sea or wind, For here are set Time's snowy tents In everlasting battlements Against the march of Saxon mind."
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Joaquin Miller
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16 Quotes by Joaquin Miller
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He gained a world; he gave that world Its grandest lesson: "On! sail on!"
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All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him…
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The biggest dog has been a pup.
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Lonely as God, and white as a winter moon, Mount Shasta starts up sudden and solitary from the heart of…
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Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon, Batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles, Hangs silent on the…
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There are many To-morrows, my Love, my Love, There is only one To-day.
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Sail on! sail on! sail on! and on!
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The bravest battle that ever was fought; Shall I tell you where and when? On the maps of the world…
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God's poet is silence! His song is unspoken, And yet so profound, so loud, and so far, It fills you,…
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That man who lives for self alone, Lives for the meanest mortal known.
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All you can hold in your cold dead hand is what you have given away.
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O woman, born first to believe us; Yea, also born first to forget; Born first to betray and deceive us,…
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It is not the glorious battlements, the painted windows, the crouching gargoyles that support a building, but the stones that…
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Fate sits on these dark battlements and frowns, And as the portal opens to receive me, A voice in hollow…
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The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments,…
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Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks and rivers wide Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees,…
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With battlements that on their restless fronts Bore stars.
— William Wordsworth
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What constitutes the bulwark of our liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea-coasts, our army…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in…
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From the tower battlements, Dustfinger looked down on a lake as black as night, where the reflection of the castle…
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The Stars. Jared slept beneath them, uneasy in the rustling leaves. From the battlements Finn gazed up at them, seeing…
— Catherine Fisher
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Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges…
— Zelda Fitzgerald
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And as the years flowed by, some villagers told travelers of a beast and a beauty who lived in the…
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