Quotes of Tributary - somelinesforyou

“ I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ If taxes are laid upon us without our having a legal representation where they are laid, we are reduced from the character of free subjects to the state of tributary slaves. ”

- Sam Adams

“ If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally, we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested, and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the river of greatness is always the stream of adversity. ”

- Cavett Robert

“ Inexorable facts connect our consciousness with this body that we know; and that not merely as a whole, but the parts of it are connected severally with parts of our brain-action. If there is any similar connexion with a spiritual body, it only follows that the spiritual body must die at the same time with the natural one… ”

- William Kingdon Clifford
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