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Famous quotes containing the word blow:

    You are the brave who do not break
    In the grip of the mob when the blow comes straight
    To the shattered bone;
    Raymond R. Patterson (b. 1929)

    The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.
    Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)

    O my soul’s joy,
    If after every tempest come such calms,
    May the winds blow till they have wakened death!
    And let the laboring bark climb hills of seas
    Olympus-high, and duck again as low
    As hell’s from heaven!
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)