“ Written laws are like spider's webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and the poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful. ”
- Anacharsis- Copy
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“ Yet, Freedom! Yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
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“ If there's anything I'm proud about from that season, it was not being deterred by appendicitis and a torn quad. ”
- Brady Anderson- Copy
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“ Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it - torn up to irrecoverable tatters. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
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“ To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are. ”
- Arthur Golden- Copy
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“ So much of what we have taken for granted has been ripped from us. ”
- Jimmy Stewart- Copy
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“ We thought we had that agreement,... But instead of honoring it, the Republican leadership came back this afternoon and ripped it apart. ”
- Hillary Clinton- Copy
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“ However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole. ”
- Muriel Rukeyser- Copy
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“ Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets. ”
- Anthony Burgess- Copy
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“ Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness. ”
- Faith Baldwin- Copy
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“ Democritus plucked his eye out because he could not look at a woman without thinking of her as a woman. If he had read a few of our novels, he would have torn himself to pieces. ”
- Wallace Stevens- Copy
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“ A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
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“ I glory in this world of men and women, torn with troubles, yet living on to love and laugh through it all. ”
- Carl Sandburg- Copy
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“ The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate… Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred… ”
- Franklin D. Roosevelt- Copy
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“ When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die! ”
- Anna Letitia Barbauld- Copy
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“ When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language. ”
- John Donne- Copy
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“ One ever feels his two-ness — an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. ”
- W.E.B. Du Bois- Copy
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“ I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Let us destroy the Constitution and build on its ruins the temple of liberty. I have brothers in slavery. I have seen chains placed on their limbs and beheld them captive. ”
- William Wells Brown- Copy
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“ I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
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“ One ever feels his twoness-an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. ”
- W. E. B. Du Bois- Copy
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“ When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter. ”
- Albert Camus- Copy
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“ I grew up a Jehovah's Witness because my grandmother was really influencing that lifestyle on me. That is a very morally intense religion. And although they keep you from experiencing a lot of the bad things that can really hurt you out there in the world, they are also depriving you from experiencing life… Whenever I would visit my dad, it was like Freud and Darwin… So I grew up torn… ”
- Michelle Rodriguez- Copy
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“ Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life-purpose; he has found it, and will follow it! How, as a free-flowing channel, dug and torn by noble force through the sour mudswamp of one's existence, like an ever-deepening river there, it runs and flows;raining off the sour festering water, gradually from the root of the remotest grass-blade; making, instead of pestilential swamp, a green fruitful meadow with its clear-flowing stream… ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
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“ All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated…As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all: but how much more me, who am brought so near the door by this sickness…No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main… ”
- John Donne- Copy
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“ Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice… ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world, and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. ”
- E. B. White- Copy
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