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In agony or danger, no nature is atheist. The mind that knows not what to fly to, flies to God.
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Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness…
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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to…
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One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to…
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In men this blunder still you find; all think their little set mankind.
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In grief we know the worst of what we feel but who can tell the end of what we fear?
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Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill…
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There is one single fact that one may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity; namely, that no man ever…
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Man can see his reflection in water only when he bends down close to it, and the heart of man, too, must…
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Oh! the joy Of young ideas painted on the mind, In the warm glowing colors fancy spreads On objects not yet known,…
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How much it is to be regretted, that the British ladies should ever sit down contented to polish, when they are able…
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Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.
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Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.
— Walter Raleigh
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Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away.
— Philip Sidney
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These are the things I prize And hold of dearest worth: Light of the sapphire skies, Peace of the silent hills, Shelter…
— Henry Van Dyke
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Trust in the inexhaustible character of the murmur.
— Andre Breton
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When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes.
— Thomas Brooks
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It is natural for every man uninstructed to murmur at his condition, because, in the general infelicity of life, he feels his…
— Samuel Johnson
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I am afraid, ... that health begins, after seventy, and often long before, to have a meaning different from that which it…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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Then what shall I write? I can't just write that this happened then this happened then this happened to boring infinitum. I'll…
— David Almond
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Lovers O lovers, lovers it is time to set out from the world. I hear a drum in my soul's ear coming…
— Unknown Author
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I do not murmur, even if my heart break.
— Heinrich Heine
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See, they return; ah, see the tentative Movements, and the slow feet, The trouble in the pace and the uncertain Wavering! See,…
— Ezra Pound
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Whenever I sit with a bowl of soup before me, listening to the murmur that penetrates like the distant song of an…
— Junichiro Tanizaki
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