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“I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy's door.”
William Cowper
“A wretched soul bruised with adversity,We bid be quiet when we hear it cry;But were we burdened with like weight of pain,As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.”
William Shakespeare
“We should thank God that He did not give us the power of hearing through walls; otherwise there would be no such thing as friendship”
Austin O'Malley
“What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?”
George Orwell
“But words are words; I never yet did hearThat the bruised heart was pierced through the ear.”
“Do you call yourself free? I want to hear your ruling idea, and not that you have escaped from a yoke. . . . Free from what? Zarathustra does not care about that! But your eye should clearly tell me: free for what?”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A jest's prosperity lies in the ear of him that hears it, never in the tongue of him who makes it”
“The wolf that one hears is worse than the orc that one fears.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
“Hear the other side.”
Saint Augustine
