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"We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a sort of monument, to which each forcible individual in a course of many hundred years has contributed a stone."
"I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself."
"Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on."
"I find that discussing an idea out loud is often the way to kill it stone dead."
"When I make a new movie, I always get stuck with, "That's not an Oliver Stone film." But I don't know what to do about that except just move on."
"It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone and can be made as offensive as a brickbat."
"Stones are hollowed out by the constant dropping of water."
"Death approaches, which is always impending like the stone over Tantalus: then comes superstition with which he who is imbued can never have peace of mind."
"With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare when I measure my mind against his. . . . It would positively be a relief to me to dig him up and throw stones at him."
"Get to live; Then live, and use it; else, it is not true That thou hast gotten. Surely use alone Makes money not a contemptible stone."
"Strong currents drag many stones and bushes along with them, strong intellects many dense and muddled minds."
"We ought to love temperance for itself, and in obedience to God who has commanded it and chastity; but what I am forced to by catarrhs, or owe to the stone, is neither chastity nor temperance."
"We are stone enemies when the bell rings"
"As when, O lady mine, With chiselled touch, The stone unhewn and cold, Becomes a living mould, The more the marble wastes, The more the statue grows."
"Death is the stone into which our oblivion hardens."
"It was the year of the Beatles, it was the year of the Stones, it was 1964."
"Constant dropping wears away stones"
"Get what you can, and what you get hold; 'tis the Stone that will turn all your Lead into Gold."
"'Tis true there is much to be done, . . . but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects, for constant dropping wears away stones . . . and little strokes fell great oaks, as Poor Richard says. . . ."
"Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone."
