“ Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. ”
- Abraham Lincoln- Copy
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“ There is a destiny that shapes our ends rough, hew them as we will. ”
- Frank Harris- Copy
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“ To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
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“ Then hail! thou noble conqueror! That, when tyranny oppressed, hewed for our fathers from the wild. A land wherein to rest. ”
- Mary Elizabeth Hewitt- Copy
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“ And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, "I can do no other.". ”
- Heywood Broun- Copy
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“ He will hew the line of right, let the chips fall where they may. ”
- Roscoe Conklin- Copy
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“ There is a divinity which shapes our ends, rough-hew them as we might. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ O if we but knew what we do when we delve or hew — hack and rack the growing green! Since country is so tender to touch, her being so slender, that like this sleek and seeing ball but a prick will make no eye at all, where we, even where we mean to mend her we end her, when we hew or delve: after-comers cannot guess the beauty been. ”
- Gerard Manley Hopkins- Copy
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“ Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present. For what one has lived is at best comparable to a beautiful statue which has had all its limbs knocked off in transit, and now yields nothing but the precious block out of which the image of one's future must be hewn. ”
- Walter Benjamin- Copy
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“ Yesterday I went out at about twelve, and visited the British Museum; an exceedingly tiresome affair. It quite crushes a person to see so much at once; and I wandered from hall to hall with a weary and heavy heart, wishing that the Elgin marbles and the frieze of the Parthenon were all burnt into lime, and that the granite Egyptian statues were hewn and squared into building stones, and that the mummies had all turned to dust, two thousand years ago; and, in fine, that all the material relics of so many successive ages had disappeared with the generations that produced them… ”
- Nathaniel Hawthorne- Copy
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