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erect

«The biggest difference between ancient Rome and the USA is that in Rome the common man was treated like a dog. In America he sets the tone. This is the first country where the common man could stand erect.»
«You have to erect a fence and say, ''Okay, scale this.''»
Author: Linda Ronstadt (Singer) | Keywords: erect, fence
«The whole effort of a sincere man is to erect his personal impressions into laws»
Author: Remy de Gourmont | About: Effort | Keywords: erect, impressions
«Unless above himself he can / Erect himself, how poor a thing is man.»
Author: Samuel Daniel | Keywords: erect
«To say that a thing has never yet been done among men is to erect a barrier stronger than reason, stronger than discussion»
Author: Thomas Brackett Reed (Politician) | Keywords: erect
«The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.»
«You have no right to erect your toll-gate upon the highways of thought»
«This horrible stone entity was fashioned as if covered with a wrinkled hide; it had short, erect ears, eyes starting from their sockets, and its fingers and hands were seizing the corners of its mouth, which they thus seemed to pull open to give free passage to the water it vomited.»
«We may add to the great honor of science and the arts, that their natural effect is, by illuminating public opinion, to erect it into a censor before which the most exalted tremble for their future as well as present fame»