"And Thou, vast Ocean! on whole awful face……" — Robert Montgomery
"And Thou, vast Ocean! on whole awful face Time's iron feet can print no ruin trace."
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24 Quotes by Robert Montgomery
Robert Montgomery has 24 quotes on this site.
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My advice to you concerning applause is this: enjoy it but never quite believe it
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The spectacle of advertising creates images of false beauty so suave and so impossible to attain that you will hurt…
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The flood will lift the ghosts from the Hollywood lawn cemetery and they will disappear like ether in the now…
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If you are lucky enough to be a success, by all means enjoy the applause and the adulation of the…
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Are you really listening... or are you just waiting for your turn to talk?
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And now, Though haply mellow'd by correcting time, I thank thee, Heaven! that the bereaving world Hath not diminish'd the…
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Oh! weep not that our beauty wears Beneath the wings of Time; That age o'erclouds the brow with cares That…
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A universal beauty clothes the world, And one heart seems to beat for all mankind!
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Where beats a heart within a human breast, There be Thou present, and Thy power adored! And oh! since all…
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As o'er the stormy sea of human Life We sail, until our anchor'd spirits rest In the far haven of…
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Say, care-worn man, Whom Duty chains within the city walls, Amid the toiling crowd, how grateful plays The fresh wind…
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...but when The Spirit speaks,—or beauty from the sky Descends into my being,—when I hear The storm-hymns of the mighty…
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