Towers Quotes

• Stand firm as the tower that never shakes its top whatever wind may blow.

  Dante Alighieri

  Blow, Wind, May

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• Our problems may tower over us, but God towers over our problems.

  Dillon Burroughs

  May, Problem

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• Great towers take time to construct.

  Herman Melville

  Patience, Persistence, Take Time

  Herman Melville (2015). “Mardi: and A Voyage Thither: Works of Melville”, p.176, 谷月社

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• Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

  Saint Augustine

  Inspirational Life, Philosophical, Humility

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• Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.

  Dante Alighieri

  Humor, Commitment, Blow

  Dante Alighieri (2015). “The Divine Comedy: Top Classic Poetry”, p.233, 谷月社

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• Be like a solid tower whose brave height remains unmoved by all the winds that blow; the man who lets his thoughts be turned aside by one thing or another, will lose sight of his true goal, his mind sapped of its strength.

  Dante Alighieri

  Blow, Men, Sight

  Dante Alighieri (2003). “The Portable Dante”, p.282, Penguin

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• Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending.

  Saint Augustine

  Humility, Clouds, Wish

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• From whatever you wish to know and measure you must take your leave, at least for a time. Only when you have left the town can yousee how high its towers rise above the houses.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Knowledge, Perspective, House

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• From a proud tower in the town, Death looks gigantically down.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Death, Looks, Proud

  Edgar Allan Poe (2014). “Classics Reimagined, Edgar Allan Poe: Stories & Poems”, p.192, Rockport Pub

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• Character is both formed and revealed by how one deals with everyday situations as well as extraordinary pressures and temptations. Like a well-made tower, character is built stone by stone, decision by decision.

  Michael Josephson

  Character, Decision, Temptation

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• Brave men are a city's strongest tower of defence.

  Alcaeus

  Men, Cities, Brave

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• A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  New Day, Shining, Sun

  "Fictional character: Sam". "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers", www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• Living in a tower, however secure it may feel, is hardly a social attribute.

  Dirk Bogarde

  Umpires, May, Social

  Dirk Bogarde (2014). “A Postillion Struck by Lightning”, p.171, A&C Black

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• Many live in the ivory tower called reality; they never venture on the open sea of thought.

  Francois Gautier

  Inspirational, Reality, Sea

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• There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Hope, Optimistic, Fighting

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• A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Art, Memories, Men

  Benjamin Disraeli (1844). “Coningsby, etc”, p.113

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• There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them. Snow, rain, and mist highlight, drench, or conceal the vast towers, but those towers, hostile to mystery and blind to any sort of play, shear off the rain's tresses and shine their three thousand swords through the soft swan of the fog.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Rain, Swans, Fog

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• Beautiful city! . . . spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age . . . her ineffable charm. . . . Adorable dreamer, whose heart has been so romantic!

  Matthew Arnold

  Beautiful, Heart, Garden

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• I am circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I have been circling for a thousand years, and I still don't know if I am a falcon, or a storm, or a great song.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Song, Years, Storm

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1981). “Selected Poems”

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• Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  New York, Skills, Trying

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• A red sun rises. Blood has been spilled this night.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Night, Blood, Red

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• War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all.

  Faramir

  War, Swiftness, Lord Of The Ring

  "Fictional character: Faramir". 'The Two Towers' ('The Lord of the Rings'), Book by J. R. R. Tolkien, 1954.

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• There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Dark, May, Ends

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.430, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.'

  James Keller

  Wall, Adversity, Cells

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• The ivory tower of the artist may be the only stronghold left for human values, cultural treasures, man’s cult of beauty.

  Anais Nin

  Artist, Men, Ivory Tower

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