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“In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, Ere one to one was cursedly confin'd: When Nature prompted, and no Law deni'd Promiscuous use of concubine and bride; Then, Israel's monarch, after Heaven's own heart, His vigorous warmth did variously impart To wives and slaves: and, wide as his command, Scatter'd his Maker's image through the land.”

Men Heart Kind Made Use Law Heaven Sin Wife Land Slave Israel Wide Command Crafts Priests Makers Warmth Brides Vigorous Pious Impart Monarchs Polygamy Promiscuous Concubines

Author:John Dryden

“How wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.”

Land Limits Wide Splendid

Author:Oliver Goldsmith

“Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above. Don't fence me in. Let me ride through the wide open country that I love Don't fence me in Let me be by myself in the evenin' breeze And listen to the murmur of the cottonwood trees Send me off forever but I ask you please Don't fence me in”

Giving Country Asks Forever Tree Sky Land Please Let Me Give Me Wide Fence Breeze Starry Sky

Author:Cole Porter

“We are not born of the passions of war or of the fervours of revolution. And we grew quietly into the realization that, set as we are in a great wide land, with all our differences, there are certain traditions and ideals which we had in common, and which could best be preserved in a distinct society of our own.”

War Certain Passion Born Differences Common Land Revolution Grew Ideals Tradition Wide Realization

Author:Vincent Massey

“Over hundred years ago Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act. There was wide distribution of land and they didn't confiscate anyone's privately owned land... We need an industrial Homestead Act.”

Needs Years Wisdom Politics Economy Land Hundred Years Ago Wide Liberalism Distribution Abraham Homestead Act

Author:Ronald Reagan

“A rising nation, spread over a wide and fruitful Land, traversing all the seas with the rich production of their Industry.”

Nations Rich Sea Land Industry Productions Spread Wide Rising

Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson

“As with nearly all proposed development standards, the goal is to encourage efficient land use, flexibility and a wide variety of housing types while reducing the potential for negative impacts.”

Use Goal Land Type Development Standards Negative Impact Wide Variety Efficient Flexibility Housing Reducing Land Use

Author:Bill Vaughan

“America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.”

Mind America Land Wide Lawns Narrow Minds

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“I am not part of that earlier Australian generation who set off on a deliberate search for fame and fortune in distant lands. My generation was the first that didn't need to. By the 1980's when I left home, our culture had grown deep enough and wide enough to encompass all but the most rarefied of ambitions.”

Needs Firsts Art Enough Home Culture Left Generations Land Fame Ambition Fortune Wide Deliberate Australian My Generation

Book:Boyer Lectures 2011

Source: Boyer Lectures 2011

“Influence often isn't noticed until it blossoms later in the garden of someone else's life. Our words and actions may land close to home, or they may be carried far and wide.”

May Home Action Influence Land Garden Wide Our Words Words And Actions

Author:Elizabeth Price Foley