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“The slave will be free. Democracy in America will yet be a glorious reality; and when the top-stone of that temple of freedom which our fathers left unfinished shall be brought forth with shoutings and cries of grace unto it, when our now drooping Liberty lifts up her head and prospers, happy will he be who can say, with John Milton, "Among those who have something more than wished her welfare, I, too, have my charter and freehold of rejoicing to me and my heirs."”

Source: Old portraits and modern sketches

“Gospel ministers should not only be like dials on watches, or mile-stones upon the road, but like clocks and larums, to sound the alarm to sinners. Aaron wore bells as well as pomegranates, and the prophets were commanded to lift up their voice like a trumpet. A sleeping sentinel may be the loss of the city.”

Should Wells May Sound Voice Loss Sleep Cities Watches Stones Miles Lifts Clock Ministers Prophet Sinner Bells Preaching Alarms Trumpets Sentinels Pomegranates

Author:Joseph Hall

“If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can't lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.”

Ifs Doe Can Do Stones Heavy Lifts

Author:Lucretius

“Friends, I was pretty sure, lift their friends up; they don't weigh them down like a sack full of stones”

Book:The Summer I Learned to Fly

Source: The Summer I Learned to Fly

“I have no wit, no words, no tears; My heart within me like a stone Is numb'd too much for hopes or fears; Look right, look left, I dwell alone; I lift mine eyes, but dimm'd with grief No everlasting hills I see; My life is in the falling leaf: O Jesus, quicken me.”

Looks Heart Eye Life Is Fall Jesus Left Grief Too Much Tears Mines My Heart Stones Wit Hills Lifts Leafs Everlasting Numb Falling Leaves

Author:Christina Rossetti

“God warned Israel, "And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it" (Ex. 20:25). To pollute something is to make it ordinary. God insists that any approach crafted by human ingenuity will produce a worship system just like all the pagan systems in the world. In other words, it will be common or profane - just like everyone else's paganism.”

Ifs World Humans Common Produce Approach Worship Ordinary Tools Stones Israel Lifts Exes Altars Paganism Pagan Ingenuity Profane

Author:Max Anders

“I have gone up in the Pyramids and the stones are so close together you can't force a playing card between them and (they are) in perfect alignment. So those people must have had some hydraulics or something. You take 20 men, put them around a big stone, their legs would get in the way. Even if they could lift it, 20 pairs of legs hitting against each other would throw it off balance. And they would not have it in exact alignment. Not even a fraction of an inch off.”

People Ifs Men Way Bigs Together Force Perfect Gone Balance Stones Legs Cards Lifts Pairs Inches Hitting Pyramids Fractions Alignment Playing Cards

Author:John Henrik Clarke

“The joke's on them. One little hypodermic wont' be enough. Split a piece of wood, and they'll find me. Lift up a stone, and they'll find me. Look in the mirror, and they'll find me...If you really want to know what makes someone a killer, ask yourself what would make you do it.”

Ifs Knows Want Looks Littles Enough Asks Pieces Jokes Stones Mirrors Woods Lifts Killers Splits Find Me

Book:Change of Heart: A Novel

Source: Change of Heart: A Novel

“The line-storm clouds fly tattered and swift, The road is forlorn all day, Where a myriad snowy quartz stones lift, And the hoof-prints vanish away. The roadside flowers, too wet for the bee, Expend their bloom in vain. Come over the hills and far with me, And be my love in the rain.”

Lines Flower Rain Stones Clouds Storm Hills Lifts Vain Print Wet Bees Forlorn Snowy Roadside Storm Clouds Love Rain Quartz

Book:Selected Early Poems of Robert Frost

Source: Selected Early Poems of Robert Frost

“Cold be hand and heart and bone, and cold be sleep under stone: never more to wake on stony bed, never, till the Sun fails and the Moon is dead. In the black wind the stars shall die, and still on gold here let them lie, till the dark lord lifts his hand over dead sea and withered land.”

Heart Stills Hands Lying Dies Stars Black Dark Sleep Lord Sun Failing Sea Land Wind Cold Bed Moon Stones Gold Bones Lifts Withered

Book:The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings

Source: The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings

“I found myself grinning until my cheeks hurt, my scalp prickling till I thought it might lift off my head. My tongue ran away from me, giddy with freedom. This, and this, and this, I said to him. I did not have to fear that I spoke too much. I did not have to worry that I was too slender, or too slow. This and this and this! I taught him how to skip stones, and he taught me how to carve wood. I could feel every nerve in my body, every brush of air against my skin.”

Feels Said Body Might Found Hurt Worry Too Much Air Taught Stones Skins Woods Tongue Lifts Ran Spokes Nerves Cheeks Brushes Skip Slender Grinning Giddy

Book:The Song of Achilles

Source: The Song of Achilles

“Victory in defeat, there is none higher. She didn't give up, Ben; she's still trying to lift that stone after it has crushed her. She's a father working while cancer eats away his insides, to bring home one more pay check. She's a twelve-year-old trying to mother her brothers and sisters because mama had to go to Heaven. She's a switchboard operator sticking to her post while smoke chokes her and fire cuts off her escape. She's all the unsung heroes who couldn't make it but never quit.”

Source: Stranger in a Strange Land