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Trembling Quotes

In art one idea is as good as another.

Willem De Kooning, John Elderfield, Lauren Mahony (2011). “De Kooning: A Retrospective”, p.14, The Museum of Modern Art

No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.

"History and Utopia". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.

True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity.

Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.32, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

As the hawk is wont to pursue the trembling doves.

Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.869, Delphi Classics

Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright.

H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.617, Vintage

The bird that hath been limed in a bush, with trembling wings misdoubteth every bush.

William Shakespeare (2013). “The Wars of the Roses In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III, Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.685, BookCaps Study Guides

It is God in you that responds to God without, or affirms his own words trembling on the lips of another.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1963). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.302, Harvard University Press

Love is its own rescue; for we, at our supremest, are but its trembling emblems.

Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.594, Harvard University Press

He who shall never be divided from me kissed my mouth all trembling.

Dante Alighieri (1849). “Dante's Divine comedy: the Inferno, a literal prose tr., with the text of the original and notes, by J.A. Carlyle”, p.58