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Letter "E" » empires
«I would / Love you ten years before the flood, / And you should if you please refuse / Till the conversion of the Jews; / My vegetable love should grow / Vaster than empires and more slow.»
Author: Andrew Marvell
(Poet, Politician, Satirist)
| Keywords:
conversion, conversions, Conversion of, empires, flood, Jews, The Flood, Vaster, vegetable
«Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.»
Author: Edwin Hubbel Chapin
(Author, Clergyman, Pastor, Speaker, Writer)
| Keywords:
doers, empires, principals, skepticism
«Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains.»
«So in Europe, we had empires. Everyone had them - France and Spain and Britain and Turkey! The Ottoman Empire, full of furniture for some reason. And the Austro-Hungarian Empire, famous for fuck all! Yes, all they did was slowly collapse like a flan in a cupboard.»
«Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments -- a republic whose flag is loved while other flags are only feared.»
Author: William Jennings Bryan
(Orator, Politician)
| Keywords:
all-around, armament, armaments, behold, bowed, empires, erect, feared, flag, flags, republic, The Weight, weight
«RETRIBUTION, n. A rain of fire-and-brimstone that falls alike upon the just and such of the unjust as have not procured shelter by evicting them. In the lines following, addressed to an Emperor in exile by Father Gassalasca Jape, the reverend poet appears to hint his sense of the improduence of turning about to face Retribution when it is talking exercise:What, what! Dom Pedro, you desire to go Back to Brazil to end your days in quiet? Why, what assurance have you 'twould be so?'Tis not so long since you were in a riot, And your dear subjects showed a will to fly at Your throat and shake you like a rat. You know That empires are ungrateful; are you certain Republics are less handy to get hurt in?»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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addressed, assurance, brazil, brimstone, come in handy, DOM, Dom Pedro, emperor, empires, exile, fire and brimstone, firing line, handier, Handy, hint, hints, jape, Long line, Pedro, procured, retribution, retributions, Reverend, riot, shelter, showed, subjects, talk show, throat, ungrateful
«?Civilization?s going to pieces,? broke out Tom violently. ?I?ve gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things. Have you read The Rise of the Colored Empires by this man Goddard??»
«Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and myself founded empires; but what foundation did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded an empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for Him.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
| Keywords:
Alexander, before Christ, Caesar, Charlemagne, christ, creations, Empire, empires, force, foundation, founded, genius, hour, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Jesus Only, millions, myself, rest
«Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.»
«Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.»
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