jacob's-ladder quotes

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Cry;--and upon thy so sore loss
Shall shine the traffic of Jacob's ladder
Pitched betwixt Heaven and Charing Cross.
It is of stone.
A rosy stone that takes
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and a man climbing
must scrape his knees, and bring
...
The stairway is not
a thing of gleaming strands
...
When Titian was mixing brown madder,
His model was posed up a ladder.
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Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then ...
You will see ... that it is easier to go down the social ladder than to climb it.
The only difference between a man and woman climbing the ladder of success is that a woman is expected to put it in the closet whe ...
From top to bottom of the ladder, greed is aroused without knowing where to find ultimate foothold. Nothing can calm it, since its ...
Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago ...
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