Quotes with wavering

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• It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering, and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the sun.

  Joseph Conrad
  In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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• Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

  James Russell Lowell
  American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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• The wavering mind is but a base possession.

  Euripides
  Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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• The wavering multitude is divided into opposite factions.

  Virgil
  Roman poet (70 - 19)
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• Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.

  Jean Paul
  German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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• You accuse a woman of wavering affections, but don't blame her; she is just looking for a consistent man.

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
  German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• incomprehensible
• reputation
• possession
• affections
• consistent
• factions

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