#multitude

I have been a multitude of shapes, Before I assumed a consistent form. ↗

— Taliesin

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He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

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But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

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Riches cover a multitude of woes. ↗

— Menander

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When Jesus then is with the multitudes, He is not in His house, for the multitudes are outside of the house, and it is an act which springs from His love of men to leave the house and to go away to those who are not able to come to Him. ↗

— Origen

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If, amid the multitude of contending counsel, you have hesitated and doubted; if, when a great measure suggested itself, you have shrunk from the vast responsibility, afraid to go forward lest you should go wrong, what wonder? ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

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In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice. ↗

— Ben Jonson

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The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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In the scattered settlements of this Diocese, schools and Churches are of necessity for many years few in number, and multitudes of both sexes are growing up in great ignorance. ↗

— John Strachan

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