“ The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
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“ The monument of a great man is not of granite or marble or bronze. It consists of his goodness, his deeds, his love and his compassion. ”
- Alfred A. Montapert- Copy
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“ The first four months of writing the book, my mental image is scratching with my hands through granite. My other image is pushing a train up the mountain, and it's icy, and I'm in bare feet. ”
- Mary Higgins Clark- Copy
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“ A mass of Victorian wiles and granite that resembles a battleship in the rain and a wedding cake in the sun. ”
- Francis X. Clines- Copy
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“ For me chemistry represented an indefinite cloud of future potentialities which enveloped my life to come in black volutes torn by fiery flashes, like those which had hidden Mount Sinai. Like Moses, from that cloud I expected my law, the principle of order in me, around me, and in the world… ”
- Primo Levi- Copy
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“ For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot an. ”
- Robert Louis Stevenson- Copy
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“ Man's own youth is the world's youth; at least he feels as if it were, and imagines that the earth's granite substance is something not yet hardened, and which he can mould into whatever shape he likes. ”
- Nathaniel Hawthorne- Copy
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