Quotes with fugitive

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• I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.

  ― John Milton
  English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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• The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

  ― Marie de Rabutin-Chantal marquise de Sévigné
  French letter writer and aristocrat (1626 - 1696)
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• There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.

  ― Eric Hoffer
  American writer (1902 - 1983)
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• What fugitive from his country can also escape from himself.

  ― Horace
  Roman poet
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• As contraband, fugitive slaves could be collected and used by a Union army just as any other property could be collected and used, and nobody was in any way committed on any side of the slavery issue itself.

  ― Bruce Catton
  American historian and journalist (1899 - 1978)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• unexercised
• unbreathed
• passionate
• contraband
• ourselves
• collected

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