Epes Sargent quotes
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“Republics, like individuals, who are benefited by personal sacrifices, are proverbially ungrateful.”
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“A life on the ocean wave! A home on the rolling deep, Where the scattered waters rave, And the winds their revels keep!”
-- Epes SargentSource : Epes Sargent (1849). “Songs of the sea, with other poems”, p.50
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“The human soul is like a bird that is born in a cage. Nothing can deprive it of its natural longings, or obliterate the mysterious remembrance of its heritage.”
-- Epes SargentSource : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 558, 1895.
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“The cold blast at the casement beats;The window-panes are white;The snow whirls through the empty streets;It is a dreary night!”
-- Epes SargentSource : Epes Sargent (1849). “Songs of the sea, with other poems”, p.119
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“The whole east was flecked With flashing streaks and shafts of amethyst, While a light crimson mist Went up before the mounting luminary, And all the strips of cloud began to vary Their hues, and all the zenith seemed to ope As if to show a cope beyond the cope!”
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“There is a just Latin axiom, that he who seeks a reason for everything subverts reason.”
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“True poetry, like the religious prompting itself, springs from the emotional side of a man's complex nature, and is ever in harmony with his highest intuitions and aspirations.”
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Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 69, 1895.
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“Earth produces nothing worse than an ungrateful man.”
Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 393-94, Epigrams, CXL. 1, 1922.
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“We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.”
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Source : "Best Speech; Faithful, Even in Death" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. April 18, 1999.
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“Hating requires caring. In which case, I couldn't possibly hate you.”
Source : Alyson Noel (2010). “Blue Moon”, p.61, Pan Macmillan
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