Emblems Quotes
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Love is its own rescue; for we, at our supremest, are but its trembling emblems.
Emily Dickinson
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Obedience is an emblem of our faith in the wisdom and power of the highest authority, even God.
L. Tom Perry
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No more arresting emblems of the modern culture of nationalism exist than cenotaphs and tombs of Unknown Soldiers.
Benedict Anderson
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With spots quadrangular of diamond form, ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, and spades, the emblems of untimely graves.
William Cowper
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A gift of flowers to a woman implies that she is as deliciously desirable as the blossoms themselves; but there may be another and hidden message, contained in the old-fashioned phrases like 'shy as a violet, 'clinging vine,' not originally conceived as pejoratives, that tells more of the truth - which is that flowers are also emblems of feminine submission.
Eleanor Perenyi
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Punishing desecration of the flag dilutes the very freedom that makes this emblem so revered.
William J. Brennan, Jr.
