Quotes with tread

  • The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

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  • Henry Ward Beecher Sink the Bible to the bottom of the sea, and man's obligation to God would be unchanged. He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and his guide would be gone; he would have the same voyage to make, only his compass and chart would be overboard.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • William Butler Yeats But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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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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  • Barry Cornwall Enter upon thy paths, O year! Thy paths, which all who breathe must tread, Which lead the Living to the Dead, I enter; for it is my doom To tread thy labyrinthine gloom; To note who round me watch and wait; To love a few; perhaps to hate; And do all duties of my fate.
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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  • J. du Lorens Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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  • Alexander Pope For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
    An Essay on Criticism 625
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Victor Hugo Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Abraham Cowley Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning's gentle wine! Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; 'Tis fill'd wherever thou dost tread, Nature's self's thy Ganymede.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Lord Nelson I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.
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  • William Butler Yeats I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Bayard Taylor In the glory which overhangs Palestine afar off, we imagine emotions which never come, when we tread the soil and walk over the hallowed sites.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Arna Bontemps Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky.
    Arna Bontemps
    American poet, novelist and librarian
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  • A. E. Housman Now hollow fires burn out to black,
    And lights are guttering low:
    Square your shoulders, lift your pack,
    And leave your friends and go.

    Oh never fear, man, nought's to dread,
    Look not to left nor right:
    In all the endless road you tread
    There's nothing but the night.
    A Shropshire Lad (1896)
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • William Butler Yeats The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Ben Schnetzer There's a lot of comedic value to fraternities, but whenever you start messing with power dynamics and you take away consequences, you can tread some dangerous waters.
    Ben Schnetzer
    American actor (1990 - )
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  • William Butler Yeats Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Bruce Dickinson We tread a fine line between taking ourselves seriously and being Spinal Tap.
    Tobler, John (1992)
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • Thomas Fuller If a man falls once, all will tread upon him.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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