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• The solitary monk who shook the world
  From pagan slumber, when the gospel trump
  Thunder' d its challenge from his dauntless lips
  In peals of truth.

  Robert Montgomery

  Challenges, Religion, Lips

  Robert Montgomery (1854). “The Poetical Works of Robert Montgomery ...”, p.186

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• Move like a beam of light: fly like lightning, strike like thunder, whirl in circles around a stable center

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Moving, Light, Circles

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.107, Shambhala Publications

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• God! sing, ye meadow-streams, with gladsome voice!
  Ye pine-groves, with your soft and soul-like sounds!
  And they too have a voice, you piles of snow,
  And in their perilous fall shall thunder, God!

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  God, Fall, Voice

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1872). “Poetical Works of Samuel T. Coleridge”, p.118

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• Where shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain? When the hurlyburly 's done, when the battle 's lost and won

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Rain, Play

  William Shakespeare (2000). “The Tragedies of Shakespeare: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.1043, Modern Library

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• When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language.

  D. H. Lawrence

  People, Lovely, Language

  Pansies (1929) "When I Read Shakespeare"

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• Death is like thunder in two particulars; we are alarmed, at the sound of it; and it is formidable only from that which preceded it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Death, Two, Sound

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.371

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• The great men of earth are the shadow men, who, having lived and died, now live again and forever through their undying thoughts. Thus living, though their footfalls are heard no more, their voices are louder than the thunder, and unceasing as the flow of tides or air.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Greatness, Men, Air

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• I feel my immortality over sweep all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, - and peal, like the eternal thunders of the deep, into my ears, this truth, - thou livest forever!

  Lord Byron

  Pain, Forever, Tears

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• We will go to every part of Tamil Nadu and tell the people that Hindi is coming and that it is like a thunder strike on the heads of Tamil and Dravidian people.... If Hindi were to become the official language of India, Hindi-speaking people will govern us. We will be treated like third rate citizens

  C. N. Annadurai

  People, India, Citizens

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• While Jesus was at Jerusalem there came a voice from heaven. For what purpose was the voice sent? For the sake of those who stood by. "Jesus answered and said, This voice came not because of me, but for your sakes" (John xii, 30). Of what benefit was the voice when those who heard it were unable to distinguish it from thunder? "The people therefore, that stood by and heard it, said that it thundered" (29).

  John Remsburg

  Jesus, Voice, People

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• If I accept the sunshine and warmth, then I must also accept the thunder and lightning.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Sunshine, Lightning

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• And also, one is a mother in order to understand the inexplicable. One is a mother to lighten the darkness. One is a mother to shield when lightning streaks the night, when thunder shakes the earth, when mud bogs one down. One is a mother in order to love without beginning or end.

  Mariama Bâ

  Mom, Mother, Night

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• Why should we not recognize in the lightning, the thunder, and the storm wind, the approach of an overwhelming Power, and in the scent of flowers and the gently rustling zephyr the presence of a Being full of love?

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Flower, Power

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1989). “Criticisms, Reflections, and Maxims of Goethe”, Richard West

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• I see the stars. I hear the rolling thunder, thy power throughout the universe displayed. Then sings my soul, my Savior, God, to thee.

  Reba McEntire

  Stars, Soul, Rolling

  "Reba McEntire's New Album Is A Dedication To Family And Faith". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. February 4, 2017.

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• It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful, like the flowers, than large, conservative, repressed, fearful, and aggressive, like the thunder lizards; a lesson, by the way, that the Earth has yet to learn.

  Tom Robbins

  Sexy, Peace, Flower

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.280, Bantam

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• Isn't it a riddle . . . and awe-inspiring, that everything is so beautiful? Despite the horror. Lately I've noticed something grand and mysterious peering through my sheer joy in all that is beautiful, a sense of its creator . . . Only man can be truly ugly, because he has the free will to estrange himself from this song of praise. It often seems that he'll manage to drown out this hymn with his cannon thunder, curses and blasphemy. But during this past spring it has dawned upon me that he won't be able to do this. And so I want to try and throw myself on the side of the victor.

  Sophie Scholl

  Beautiful, Song, Spring

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• When I was a child, all problems had ended with a single word from my father. A smile from him was sunshine, his scowl a bolt of thunder. He was smart, and generous, and honorable without fail. He could exile a trespasser, check my math homework, and fix the leaky bathroom sink, all before dinner. For the longest time, I thought he was invincible. Above the petty problems that plagued normal people. And now he was gone.

  Rachel Vincent

  Children, Father, Smart

  Rachel Vincent (2010). “Alpha”, p.244, MIRA

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• I had learned and written too much history not to know that the great masses always and at once respond to the force of gravity in the direction of the powers that be. I knew that the same voices which yelled "Heil Schuschnigg" today would thunder "Heil Hitler" tomorrow.

  Stefan Zweig

  Voice, Today, Too Much

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• we contrive to make revenge itself look like religion. We call down thunder on many a head under pretence, that those on whom we invoke it are God's enemies, when perhaps we invoke it because they are ours.

  Hannah More

  Revenge, Enemy, Looks

  Hannah More (1811). “Practical piety, or, The influence of religion of the heart on the conduct of the life”, p.199

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• Nay, in death's hand, the grape-stone proves
  As strong as thunder is in Jove's.

  Abraham Cowley

  Strong, Hands, Stones

  Abraham Cowley (1710). “The Works”, p.62

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• War and Niagara thunder to a music of their own.

  Wendell Phillips

  War, Niagara

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.408

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• the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color. Often at night there is lightning, but it quivers all alone. There is no thunder, no relieving rain. These are strange and breathless days, the dog days, when people are led to do things they are sure to be sorry for.

  Natalie Babbitt

  Summer, Dog, Sorry

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• Winter hurled more wind and rain at the city than it ever had before. Clouds dashed about in all directions emptying their thunder, hail and rain. The horizon was choked in fog.

  Ismail Kadaré

  Rain, Winter, Clouds

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• The middle years of life come on like thunder.

  Nellie L. McClung

  Years, Age, Middle

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• Those orators who give us much noise and many words, but little argument and less wit, and who are the loudest when least lucid, should take a lesson from the great volume of nature; she often gives us the lightning without the thunder, but never the thunder without the lightning.

  Elihu Burritt

  Giving, Lightning, Oratory

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