“ Sad and sweet and wise Here a child reposes; Dust is on his eyes, Quietly he lies - Satan, strew Roses. ”
- Robert Williams Buchanan- Copy
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“ The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships. ”
- H.G. Wells- Copy
- 2K
“ It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. ”
- Virginia Woolf- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others. ”
- Virginia Woolf- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now! ”
- Thomas F. Healey- Copy
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“ And when you stick on conversation's burrs, don't strew your pathway with those dreadful ers. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes- Copy
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“ The place, with its gray sky and withered garlands, its bared spaces and scattered dead leaves, was like a theater after the performance — all strewn with crumpled playbills. ”
- Henry James- Copy
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“ The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards. ”
- Walter Bagehot- Copy
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“ Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck. ”
- Immanuel Kant- Copy
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“ Let them bestow on every airth a limb; Then open all my veins, that I may swim To thee, my Maker! in that crimson lake; Then place my parboiled head upon a stake - Scatter my ashes - strew them in the air; - Lord! since thou know'st where all these. ”
- James Graham- Copy
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“ Those who believe in their truth — the only ones whose imprint is retained by the memory of men — leave the earth behind them strewn with corpses. Religions number in their ledgers more murders than the bloodiest tyrannies account for, and those whom humanity has called divine far surpass the most conscientious murderers in their thirst for slaughter. ”
- Emil Cioran- Copy
- 1.6K
“ People stress the violence. That's the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there's a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There's a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies strewn everywhere… ”
- Don Delillo- Copy
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“ Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
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“ History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it. ”
- Walter Bagehot- Copy
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