Quotes with throng

  • Vast Numbers throng'd the fruitful Hive; 
 Yet those vast Numbers made 'em thrive; 
 Millions endeavouring to supply 
 Each other's Lust and Vanity.
  • We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

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  • St. Augustine of Hippo My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed.... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Benjamin Cardozo The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.
    Law is Justice: Notable Opinions of Mr. Justice Cardozo
    Benjamin Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Bernard Mandeville Vast Numbers throng'd the fruitful Hive;
    Yet those vast Numbers made 'em thrive;
    Millions endeavouring to supply
    Each other's Lust and Vanity.
    The Fable of the Bees The Grumbling Hive, line 31, p. 3
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Oscar Wilde We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • John Keats Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous - who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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