Quotes with erect

  • We, who have already borne on the road to Paradise the lives of the best among us, want a difficult, erect, implacable Paradise; a Paradise where one can never rest and which has, beside the threshold of the gates, angels with swords.
  • Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe, bold I can meet, perhaps may turn his blow! But of all plagues, good Heavens, thy wrath can send, save, save, oh save me from the candid friend!

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  • George Canning Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe, bold I can meet, perhaps may turn his blow! But of all plagues, good Heavens, thy wrath can send, save, save, oh save me from the candid friend!
    George Canning
    British statesman (1770 - 1827)
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  • Emily Brontë Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.
    Emily Brontë
    British writer, poet (1818 - 1848)
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  • Robert Green Ingersoll He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
    Robert Green Ingersoll
    American lawyer, a Civil War veteran and politician (1833 - 1899)
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  • I. F. Stone The biggest difference between ancient Rome and the USA is that in Rome the common man was treated like a dog. In America he sets the tone. This is the first country where the common man could stand erect.
    I. F. Stone
    American journalist and writer (1907 - 1989)
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  • Bertrand Russell The height of the pedestals of the statues we erect to our national heroes is mostly proportional to the number of people they killed.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace, and the best of his manly attributes. To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, he is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Remy de Gourmont The whole effort of a sincere man is to erect his personal impressions into laws.
    Remy de Gourmont
    French writer, poet and philosopher (1858 - 1915)
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  • S. Daniel Unless above himself he can erect himself, how poor a thing is a man.
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  • J. A. Primo De Rivera We, who have already borne on the road to Paradise the lives of the best among us, want a difficult, erect, implacable Paradise; a Paradise where one can never rest and which has, beside the threshold of the gates, angels with swords.
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  • Thomas Brackett Reed To say that a thing has never yet been done among men is to erect a barrier stronger than reason, stronger than discussion.
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