Hives Quotes - Page 5

• Mos Eisley spaceport. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.

  George Lucas

  Obi Wan Kenobi, Scum, Dark Side

  Star Wars (motion picture) (1977)

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• We get new ideas from God every hour of our day when we put our trust in Him -- but we have to follow that inspiration up with perspiration -- we have to work to prove our faith. Remember that the bee that hangs around the hive never gets any honey.

  Albert E Cliffe

  Faith, Time, Truth

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• Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows. The really diligent student in one of the crowded hives of Cambridge college is as solitary as a dervis in the desert.

  Henry David Thoreau

  College, Men, Space

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• Before men we stand as opaque bee-hives. They can see the thoughts go in and out of us; but what work they do inside of a man they cannot tell. Before God we are as glass bee-hives, and all that our thoughts are doing within us he perfectly sees and understands.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Glasses, Opaque

  Henry Ward Beecher, Augusta Moore (1859). “Notes from Plymouth Pulpit: A Collection of Memorable Passages from the Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, with a Sketch of Mr. Beecher and the Lecture Room”, p.57

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• In youth, before I waxe'  d old, The blind boy,Venus' baby, For want of cunning made me bold, In bitter hive to grope for honey.

  Edmund Spenser

  Baby, Boys, Want

  1595 Amoretti,'Anacreontics', no.1.

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• Fond of those hives where folly reigns,
  And cards and scandal are the chains,
  Where the pert virgin slights a name,
  And scorns to redden into shame.

  Jonathan Swift

  Names, Reign, Scandal

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• And they brought an Owl, and a useful Cart, And a pound of Rice, and a CranberryTart, And a hive of silvery Bees. And they brought a Pig, and some green Jack-daws, And a lovely Monkey with lollipop paws, and forty Bottles of Ring-Bo-Ree, And no end of Stilton Cheese.

  Edward Lear

  Pigs, Lovely, Owl

  'The Jumblies' (1871)

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• In certain men digestion and sex absorb the vital force, and the stronger these are, the individual is so much weaker. The more ofthese drones perish, the better for the hive.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sex, Men, Stronger

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.312

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