Quotes of Towering - somelinesforyou

“ Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow. ”

- Alice Mackenzie Swaim

“ O the joy of the strong-brawn'd fighter, towering in the arena in perfect condition, conscious of power, thirsting to meet his opponent. ”

- Walt Whitman

“ When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ Changed to a lapwing by th' avenging god, He made the barren waste his lone abode, And oft on soaring pinions hover'd o'er The lofty palace then his own no more. ”

- James Beattie
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