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Edward Thomas has 12 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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As well as any bloom upon a flower I like the dust on the nettles, never lost Except to prove the sweetness…
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Verse is the natural speech of men, as singing is of birds'The Week's Survey, 18 June 1904
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NovemberÂ’s days are thirty: NovemberÂ’s earth is dirty, Those thirty days, from first to last; And the prettiest things on ground are…
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The flowers left thick at nightfall in the wood This Eastertide call into mind the men, Now far from home, who, with…
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Yes; I remember Adlestrop- The name, because one afternoon Of heat the express-train drew up there Unwontedly. It was late June.
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I built myself a house of glass:It took me years to make it:And I was proud. But now, alas!Would God someone would…
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I like to think how easily Nature will absorb London as she absorbed the mastodon, setting her spiders to spin the winding-sheet…
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If I should ever by chance grow richI'll buy Codham, Cockridden, and Childerditch,Roses, Pyrgo, and Lapwater,And let them all to my eldest…
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Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it…
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Weariness can snore upon the flint when resting sloth finds the down pillow hard.
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When some portion of the biosphere is rather unpopular with the human race-a crocodile, a dandelion, a stony valley, a snowstorm, an…
— Mary Midgley
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It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Flint must be an extremely wealthy town: I see that each of you bought two or three seats.
— Victor Borge
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I should like to sleep like a cat, with all the fur of time, with a tongue rough as flint, with the…
— Pablo Neruda
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Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint.
— Jack Butler Yeats
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