Heaps Quotes
77 quotes by 66 authors
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Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore…
— Joseph Addison
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I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps…
— Theodore Bikel
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Then sleep the seasons, full of might; While slowly swells the pod, And rounds the peach, and in the night The mushroom bursts the sod.…
— Coventry Patmore
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The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology, (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter, and the sailor take,) teach that nature's dice are always…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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For five hundred years, Baghdad had been a city of palaces, mosques, libraries and colleges. Its universities and hospitals were the most up-to-date in the…
— John Bagot Glubb
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Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that this delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing…
— Edward Mills Purcell
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My father's nature turned out no waste product; he had none of that useless stuff in him that lies in heaps near factories. He took…
— Margot Asquith
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Penetrate deeply in the secret existence of anyone about you, even of the man or woman whom you count happiest, and you will come upon…
— Myrtle Reed
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Houses were knocked down... enormous heaps of earth and clay thrown up; buildings that were undermined and shaking, propped up by great beams of wood...…
— Charles Dickens
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Among the heaps of brick and plaster lies/ a girder, still itself among the rubbish
— Charles Reznikoff
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Soil is not usually lost in slabs or heaps of magnificent tonnage. It is lost a little at a time over millions of acres by…
— Wendell Berry
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Young children are unlikely to have their self-esteem strengthened from excessive praise or flattery. On the contrary, it may raise some doubts in children; many…
— Lilian Katz
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An old Arabian fable tells of a prince imprisoned in a castle which had thirteen windows. Twelve of these windows overlooked lovely scenes, while the…
— James Keller
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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
— John Galsworthy
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Complicated lives and heaps of possessions don’t necessarily bring happiness; in fact, they can bring the opposite.
— Blake Mycoskie
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I could see no reason why used tram tickets, bits of driftwood, buttons and old junk from attics and rubbish heaps should not serve well…
— Kurt Schwitters
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The rustling of the silk is discontinued, Dust drifts over the courtyard, There is not sound of footfall, and the leaves Scurry into heaps and…
— Ezra Pound
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I have heard of 'the dead lying in heaps', but never saw it till this battle. Whole ranks fell together.
— Emory Upton
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When the sun shouts and people abound One thinks there were the ages of stone and the age of bronze And the iron age; iron…
— Robinson Jeffers
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