Rise

Famous quotes containing the word rise:

“To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)

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astonishing whites of the soles of his feet rise a n d
salute us on the turns.”
—Maxine W. Kumin (b. 1925)

“Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study. He then feels his nothingness, his forlornness, his insufficiency, his dependence, his weakness, his emptiness. There will immediately rise from the depth of his heart weariness, gloom, sadness, fretfulness, vexation, despair.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)