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«When men were all asleep the snow came flying, / In large white flakes falling on the city brown, / Stealthily and perpetually settling and loosely lying, / Hushing the latest traffic of the drowsy town.»
Author: Robert Bridges
(Physician, Poet)
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«Winds and waters keepA hush more dead than any sleep.»
«The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should therefore be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated. If the doctrine be admitted, rulers have only to declare war and they are screened at once from scrutiny. . . . In war, then, as in peace, assert the freedom of speech and of the press. Cling to this as the bulwark of all our rights and privileges.»
Author: William Ellery Channing
(Author, Clergyman)
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«Our strife pertains to ourselves - to the passing generations of men; and it can without convulsion be hushed forever with the passing of one generation»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
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«Of course America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.»
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