Quotes with beset

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  • Alice Meynell A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back - it is already so far.
    Alice Meynell
    British poet, writer (1847 - 1922)
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  • Anne Bronte I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself .
    Anne Bronte
    British writer (1820 - 1849)
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  • James Russell Lowell Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued, and cries reproachful: ''Was it then my praise, and not myself was loved? Prove now thy truth; I claim of thee the promise of thy youth.''
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Thomas Jefferson The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Walter Lippmann The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Abbe Pierre What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.
    Abbe Pierre
    French Catholic priest (born Henri Grous) (1912 - 2007)
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