Category: Quotes
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The Old Man and the Sea Quotes – Page 2 | Just Great DataBase
The fish is my friend too,” he said aloud. “I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. The Old Man and the Sea 12 Then he was sorry for the great fish… How many people…
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Quotes – Page 223 | Just Great DataBase
Then the liars and swearers are fools, for there are liars and swearers enough to beat the honest men and hang up them. William Shakespeare Macbeth 8 in the night, imagining some fear,How easy is a bush supposed a bear! William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night’s Dream 8 If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.…
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This above all: to thine own self Hamlet
This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. Quote Analysis Act 1, Scene 3, line 78-80. Said by Polonius to Laertes this advice may seem trivial and snobbish while taken out of the context, but these…
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Oedipus the King Quotes
OEDIPUS: Upon the murderer I invoke this curse-whether he is one man and all unknown, or one of many- may he wear out his life in misery to miserable doom! If with my knowledge he lives at my hearthI pray that I myself may feel my curse. On you I lay my charge to fulfill…
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So we beat on, boats against the The Great Gatsby
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. Quote Analysis This quote is the last sentence of the book “Great Gatsby” written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. This sad words are about the social inequality that existed in America despite all the freedom and democracy declared in the country. Gatsby…
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Quotes – Page 176 | Just Great DataBase
I understand that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him.~Equality 7-2521 (as Prometheus), pg 98 Ayn Rand Anthem 16 but their eyes were as cold blue glass buttons. Ayn Rand Anthem 16 The stars are beautiful, because of a flower that cannot be…