Quotes with elasticity

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• Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

  Sir Walter Scott
  British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• elasticity
• calamities
• sometimes
• frivolous
• character
• resists

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