Quotes with slumber

  • Rise like lions after slumber in invanquishable number - Shake your chains to earth like dew which in sleep had fallen on you - ye are many - they are few.

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  • Karl Marx Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list - the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Isaac Watts 'Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain, you have waked me too soon, I must slumber again.
    Isaac Watts
    English hymn writer, theologian, and logician (1674 - 1748)
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  • William C. Bryant All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.
    William C. Bryant
    American poet, editor (1794 - 1878)
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  • Christina Rossetti I dream of you to wake; would that I might Dream of you and not wake but slumber on...
    Christina Rossetti
    British poet (1830 - 1894)
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  • Vaclav Havel None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Rise like lions after slumber in invanquishable number - Shake your chains to earth like dew which in sleep had fallen on you - ye are many - they are few.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Giuseppe Mazzini Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.
    Giuseppe Mazzini
    Italian writer (1805 - 1872)
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  • Lord George Byron The dead have been awakened - shall I sleep? The world's at war with tyrants - shall I crouch? the harvest's ripe - and shall I pause to reap? I slumber not; the thorn is in my couch; Each day a trumpet soundeth in mine ear, its echo in my heart.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Vaclav Havel There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them. Besides, to distrust words, and indict them for the horrors that might slumber unobtrusively within them - isn't this, after all, the true vocation of the intellectual?
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Ernst Fischer To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.
    Ernst Fischer
    Austrian journalist, writer and politician (1899 - 1972)
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