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“And after the earthquake was a fire; but the Lord was not in the
fire: and after the fire a still small voice.”
Bible Quotes Source: I Kings (ch. XIX, v. 12)
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“For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying,
The voice of one crying in the wilderness, prepare ye the way of
the Lord, make his paths straight.”
Bible Quotes Source: Matthew (ch. III, v. 3)
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“Her voice changed like a bird's:
There grew more of the music, and less of the words.”
Robert Browning Quotes Source: Flight of the Duchess (st. 15)
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“The devil hath not, in all his quiver's choice,
An arrow for the heart like a sweet voice.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto XI, st. 13)
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“His voice no touch of harmony admits,
Irregularly deep, and shrill by fits.
The two extremes appear like man and wife
Coupled together for the sake of strife.”
Charles Churchill Quotes Source: Rosciad (l. 1,003)
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“He ceased: but left so charming on their ear
His voice, that listening still they seemed to hear.”
Homer ("Smyrns of Chios") Quotes Source: The Odyssey (bk. II, l. 414), (Pope's translation)
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“The voice so sweet, the words so fair,
As some soft chime had stroked the air;
And though the sound had parted thence,
Still left an echo in the sense.”
Ben Jonson Quotes Source: Eupheme (IV)
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“Oh, there is something in that voice that reaches
The innermost recesses of my spirit!”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes Source: Christus (pt. I, The Divine Tragedy, The First Passover, pt. VI)
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“Thy voice
Is a celestial melody.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes Source: Masque of Pandora (pt. V)
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“Her silver voice
Is the rich music of a summer bird,
Heard in the still night, with its passionate cadence.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes Source: The Spirit of Poetry (l. 55)
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“How sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman!
It is so seldom heard that, when it speaks,
It ravishes all senses.”
Philip Massinger Quotes Source: The Old Law (act IV, sc. 2, l. 34)
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“The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear
So charming left his voice, that he awhile
Thought him still speaking, still stood fix'd to hear.”
John Milton Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. VIII, l. 1)
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“A Locanian having plucked all the feathers off from a nightingale
and seeing what a little body it had, "surely," quoth he, "thou
art all voice and nothing else." (Vox et praeterea nibil.)”
Plutarch Quotes Source: Laconic Apothegms, credited to Lacon "Incert. XIII" by Lipsius
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“Her voice was like the voice the stars
Had when they sang together.”
Dante Gabriel Rossetti Quotes Source: The Blessed Damozel (st. 10)
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“A sweet voice, a little indistinct and muffled, which caresses
and does not thrill; an utterance which glides on without
emphasis, and lays stress on what is deeply felt.”
George Sand (pseudonym of Mme. Dudevant) Quotes Source: Handsome Lawrence (ch. III)
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“The voice is nothing but beaten air.
[Lat., Vox nihil aliud quam ictus aer.]”
Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) Quotes Source: Naturalinum Quoestionum (bk. II)
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“I thank you for your voices, thank you!
Your most sweet voices! Now you have left your voices,
I have no further with you.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Coriolanus (Third Citizen at II, iii)
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“Her voice was ever soft,
Gentle, and low, an excellent thing in woman.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: King Lear (King Lear at V, iii)
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“I grant you, friends, if you should fright the ladies out of
their wits, they would have no more discretion but to hang us;
but I will aggravate my voice so that I will roar you as gently
as any suckling dove; I will roar you an 'twere any nightingale.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Bottom at I, ii)
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“And rolling far along the gloomy shores
The voice of days of old and days to be.”
Lord Alfred Tennyson Quotes Source: The Passing of Arthur
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“He ceased; but still their trembling ears retained
The deep vibrations of his witching song.”
James Thomson (1) Quotes Source: Castle of Indolence (canto I, st. 20)
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“My voice stuck in my throat.
[Lat., Vox faucibus haesit.]”
Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil) Quotes Source: The Aeneid (II, 774)
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“Two voices are there; one is of the sea,
One of the mountains: each a mighty Voice.”
William Wordsworth Quotes Source: Thought of a Briton on the Subjugation of Switzerland
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“The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.”
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“It is the safeguard of the strongest that he lives under a government which is obliged to respect the voice of the weakest.”
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