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Famous quotes containing the word raised:

“Then David and the people who were with him raised their voices and wept, until they had no more strength to weep.”
—Bible: Hebrew, 1 Samuel 30:4.

Upon discovering their families had been taken prisoner.

“We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone,
But we left him alone with his glory.”
—Charles Wolfe (1791–1823)

“An interesting play cannot in the nature of things mean anything but a play in which problems of conduct and character of personal importance to the audience are raised and suggestively discussed.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)