Quotes with headlong

  • Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with his industrious crew to build in hell.

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  • Sir Walter Raleigh It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • John Milton Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with his industrious crew to build in hell.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Jean Cocteau There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Vladimir Ilyich Lenin When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the ''freedom of the press'' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.
    Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
    Russian revolutionary leader (1870 - 1924)
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