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Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
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I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I…
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In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
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The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.
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A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.
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When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That's about all you…
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We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons…
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We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in one's life…
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Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed.…
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Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is no affirmation…
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I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense…
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I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.
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I love spring flowers: daffodils and hyacinths are the ultimate flower for me. They are the essence of spring.
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China tea, the scent of hyacinths, wood fires and bowls of violets – that is my mental picture of an agreeable February…
— Constance Spry
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To Helen Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary,…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.
— Hector Hugh Munro
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And I will love words for their own sake, like 'hyacinth' and 'Piccadilly' and 'onyx.' And I'll have a good old dog,…
— Unknown Author
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The grape Hyacinth is the favorite spring flower of my garden - but no! I though a minute ago the Scilla was!…
— Alice Morse Earle
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The air smelled like Bayou Teche when it's spring and the fish are spawning among the water hyacinths and the frogs are…
— James Lee
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If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the…
— Herodotus
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Today as in the time of Pliny and Columella, the hyacinth flourishes in Wales, the periwinkle in Illyria, the daisy on the…
— Edgar Quinet
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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
— Carl Sandburg
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You gave me hyacinths first a year ago; They called me the hyacinth girl.' —Yet when we came back, late, from the…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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And I'll dance with you in Vienna, I'll be wearing a river's disguise. The hyacinth wild on my shoulder my mouth on…
— Leonard Cohen
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