"The waves have rolled upon me, the billows……" — Mercy Otis Warren
"The waves have rolled upon me, the billows are repeatedly broken over me, yet I am not sunk down."
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30 Quotes by Mercy Otis Warren
Mercy Otis Warren has 30 quotes on this site.
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The rights of the individual should be the primary object of all governments.
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The origin of all power is in the people, and they have an incontestable right to check the creatures of…
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It is necessary for every American, with becoming energy to endeavor to stop the dissemination of principles evidently destructive of…
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Great advantages are often attended with great inconveniences, and great minds called to severe trials.
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The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests…
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The study of the human character opens at once a beautiful and a deformed picture of the soul.
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The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion…
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Our situation is truly delicate & critical. On the one hand we are in need of a strong federal government…
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The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified…
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A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the…
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But truth is most likely to be exhibited by the general sense of contemporaries, when the feelings of the heart…
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It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy
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More Billows Quotes
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one of 31 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn; to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging…
— William Cowper
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Who ne'er knew salt, or heard the billows roar.
— Homer
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Men go forth to marvel at the height of mountains, and the huge waves of the sea, the broad flow…
— Saint Augustine
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I have seen the sea lashed into fury and tossed into spray, and its grandeur moves the soul of the…
— James A. Garfield
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Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain tops that freeze, Bow themselves, when he did sing; To his…
— William Shakespeare
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So I wonder this, as life billows smoke inside my head This little game where nothing is sure Why would…
— Dave Matthews
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I love to see those paragliders weaving softly around Moon Point, their legs floating above you in the air. When…
— Deb Caletti
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How much do I love thee? Go ask the deep sea How many rare gems In its coral caves be;…
— Unknown Author
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The Scythians take kannabis seed, creep in under the felts, and throw it on the red-hot stones. It smolders and…
— Herodotus
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When peace like a river, attendeth my way / When sorrow like sea billows roll / Whatever my lot, Thou…
— Unknown Author
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A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a…
— Benoit Mandelbrot
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Never make a permanent decision based on a temporary storm.. No matter how raging the billows are today, remind yourself:…
— T.D. Jakes
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