Multitudes Quotes
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meditated wild, And all the bloomy
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More Multitudes Quotes
The oldlike childrentalk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the onlyears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!
— 1927 Tiberius. Lazarus Laughed, act 4, sc.1.
Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)
— 1855 Leaves of Grass,'Song of Myself', section 51.
To multitudes of sufferers on beds of pain and languishing, Jesus has been the great physician to-day; in many a weeping circle around precious dust, He has been the Divine comforter, and the tears have almost ceased to flow as this Jesus has touched the bier. Dying lips have whispered His name, and the valley of the shadow has been illumined as with the glory from the celestial shores.
abbott eliot kittredge— P. 94. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
There are multitudes in our congregations who are just waiting while they ought to be acting. They must work, if they would have God work in them. There can be no religion without obedience.
ichabod spencer— P. 122. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
There are seasons, in human affairs, of inward and outward revolution, when new depths seem to be broken up in the soul, when new wants are unfolded in multitudes, and a new and undefined good is thirsted for. There are periods when...to dare, is the highest wisdom.
william ellery channing— William Ellery Channing, The Union (1829).
It is difficult to estimate the misery inflicted upon thousands of persons, and the absolute pecuniary penalty imposed upon multitudes of intellectual workers by the loss of their time, destroyed by organ-grinders and other similar nuisances.
Charles Babbage— Passages from the Life of a Philosopher (1864), ch. 26 "Street Nuisances"
It would be better for me … that multitudes of men should disagree with me rather than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself.
Plato— Words spoken by Socrates, 482c
The sky spread over with one continuous cloud, whitened by the light of the moon, which, though her dim shape was seen, did not throw forth so strong a light as to chequer the earth with shadows. At once the clouds seemed to cleave asunder, and left her in the centre of a black-blue vault. She sailed along, followed by multitudes of stars, small, and bright, and sharp.
dorothy wordsworth— January 25, 1798Compare Wordsworth's "A Night-Piece", lines 1-16.
Augustine, the North African of Berber descent, is today the spiritual father of multitudes who are remote indeed from him racially, politically, and culturally.
— John H. Leith, in From Generation to Generation: The Renewal of the Church According to Its Own Theology and Practice, Westminster John Knox Press, 1990, p.24
I will not choose what many men desire, Because I will not jump with common spirits, And rank me with the barbarous multitudes.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (late 1590s), Act II, scene 9, line 31.
There are seasons, in human affairs, of inward and outward revolution, when new depths seem to be broken up in the soul, when new wants are unfolded in multitudes, and a new and undefined good is thirsted for. There are periods when... to dare, is the highest wisdom.
william ellery channing— William Ellery Channing, The Union (1829).
We do not go to fight these people with numbers, strength, or multitudes, but with the religion of Allah ! Therefore press on. Only one of two things can happen both good either victory or martyrdom.
— Abdullah bin Rawaha, Chapter 21- pilgrimage of retaliation, An abridged version of the earliest biography of Muhammad, by ibn Ishaq.
His expedition against the Britanni was celebrated for its daring. For he was the first to launch a fleet upon the western ocean and to sail through the Atlantic sea carrying an army to wage war. The island was of incredible magnitude, and furnished much matter of dispute to multitudes of writers, some of whom averred that its name and story had been fabricated, since it never had existed and did not then exist and in his attempt to occupy it he carried the Roman supremacy beyond the confines of the inhabited world
— Plutarch, The Life of Julius Caesar
Augustine, the North African of Berber descent, is today the spiritual father of multitudes who are remote indeed from him racially, politically, and culturally.
— John H. Leith, in From Generation to Generation: The Renewal of the Church According to Its Own Theology and Practice, Westminster John Knox Press, 1990, p.24.
The social states of human kinds Are made by multitudes of minds, And after multitudes of years A little human growth appears Worth having, even to the soul Who sees most plain it's not the whole.
john masefield— John Masefield, Everlasting Mercy, Stanza 60.
O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being, Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing, Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red, Pestilence-stricken multitudes.
Percy Bysshe Shelley— Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ode to the West Wind, Part I.
Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)”
— Walt Whitman, in Katie Heffelfinger I Am Large, I Contain Multitudes: Lyric Cohesion and Conflict in Second Isaiah, BRILL, 15 February 2011, p.6
...when I see animals born free and despising captivity break their heads against the bars of their prison ; when I see multitudes of entirely naked savages scorn European voluptuousness and endure hunger .
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, in On Anarchism, p.61
Live for today. multitudes of people have failed to live for today.... What they have had within their grasp today they have missed entirely, because only the future has intrigued them.
— William Allen White , in Forbes, Forbes Incorporated, 1953, p.42
multitudes think they like to do evil; yet no man ever really enjoyed doing evil since God made the world.
john ruskin— John Ruskin, Stones of Venice, Volume I, Chapter II
Augustine, the North African of Berber descent, is today the spiritual father of multitudes who are remote indeed from him racially, politically, and culturally.
— John H. Leith, in From Generation to Generation: The Renewal of the Church According to Its Own Theology and Practice, Westminster John Knox Press, 1990, p.24
