"Man is a stream whose source is hidden.……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson

More Descending Quotes

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• Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the… — Saint Augustine
• Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with… — Daniel Boone
• To trace the history of a river . . . is to trace the history of the soul, the history… — Gretel Ehrlich
• Coffee comes in five descending stages: Coffee, Java, Jamoke, Joe, and Carbon Remover. — Robert A. Heinlein
• A mob is a society obodies, voluntarily bereaving themselves oreason, and traversing its work. The mob is man, voluntarily descending… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• But it's the wrestler who can put the fatigue out of his mind and break through the "wall," like a… — Unknown Author
• Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls. — Amy Lowell
• The great and amorous sky curved over the earth, and lay upon her as a pure lover. The rain, the… — Aeschylus
• The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.… — Martin Luther
• Without deductive logic science would be entirely useless. It is merely a barren game to ascend from the particular to… — Alfred North Whitehead
• Scientific, like spiritual truth, has ever from the beginning been descending from heaven to man. — Benjamin Disraeli
• I have watched this famous island descending incontinently, fecklessly, the stairway which lead to a dark gulf. — Winston Churchill

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