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Length Quotes - Page 2

Allegories drawn to great length will always break.

Allegories drawn to great length will always break.

Samuel Johnson, William Hazlitt (1854). “Johnson's Lives of the British poets completed by W. Hazlitt”, p.196

I've just swum the length of the Thames. I feel quite tired.

"David Walliams swim in river Thames makes a million for charity" by Caroline Davies, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2011.

The Now, that indivisible point which studs the length of infinite line Whose ends are nowhere, is thine all , the puny all thou callest thine.

Sir Richard Francis Burton (1894). “The Kasîdah (couplets) of Hâjî Abdû Al-Yazdi: A Lay of the Higher Law”

The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Aakash Singh, Rimina Mohapatra (2008). “Reading Hegel: The Introductions”, p.35, re.press

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.296, Cosimo, Inc.

I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.

Julia Margaret Cameron (1973). “Victorian photographs of famous men & fair women”, David R. Godine Publisher

Straight lines vary only in length, and therefore are least ornamental.

William Hogarth (2015). “Aestheticism in Art”, p.77, Parkstone International