Quotes with lighter

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• A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

  ― Seneca
  Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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• Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!

  ― Alexander Pope
  English poet (1688 - 1744)
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• I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.

  ― Phillips Brooks
  American Minister, Poet (1835 - 1893)
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• Lighter is the wound foreseen.

  ― Cato the Elder
  Roman senator and historian (234 - 149)
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• Nowadays a citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter.

  ― Gilbert Keith Chesterton
  English writer (1874 - 1936)
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• The former measured six feet and an inch in his stockings, and, without a single pound of cumbrous flesh about him, weighed a hundred and eighty. The latter was an inch shorter than his rival, and ten pounds lighter; but he was much the most active of the two.

  ― Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
  American lawyer, minister, educator, and humorist (1790 - 1870)
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• The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line - the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea. It was a phase of this problem that caused the Civil War.

  ― W. E. B. Du Bois
  American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist and writer (1868 - 1963)
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• To die for the racists is lighter than a feather, but to die for the people is heavier than any mountain and deeper than any sea.

  Source: To Die for the People (1972)

  ― Huey Newton
  African-American political activist (1942 - 1989)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• paper-credit
• distinguish
• color-line
• stockings
• twentieth
• measured

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