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"Everyone cleaves to the doctrine he has happened upon, as to a rock against which he has been thrown by tempest."
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"If you would feel the full force of a tempest, take up your residence on the top of Mount Washington, or at the Highland Light, inTruro."
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"Me, poor man, my library Was dukedom large enough."
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"Good wombs have borne bad sons." -- (Miranda, I:2)"
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"What showers arise, blown with the windy tempest of my heart"
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"No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power."
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"Ocean into tempest wrought, To waft a feather, or to drown a fly."
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"If the happiness of the mass of mankind can be secured at the expense of a little tempest now and then, or even of a little blood, it will be a precious purchase."
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"Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest."
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"Hush! Still as death, The tempest holds his breath As from a sudden will; The rain stops short, but from the eaves You see it drop, and hear it from the leaves, All is so bodingly still."
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"Character is constructed amidst the tempests of the World"
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"As long as the firmament of the You is spread over me, the tempests of causality cower at my heels, and whirl of doom congeals."
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