Profusion Quotes
38 quotes by 34 authors
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A profusion of pink roses being ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring.
— William Carlos Williams
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Look round this universe. What an immense profusion of beings, animated and organized, sensible and active! You admire this prodigious variety and fecundity. But inspect…
— David Hume
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Take your materials from what is around you - if you see a dandelion, write about that; if it's misty, write about the mist. The…
— Masaoka Shiki
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The materials for poetry are all about you in profusion.
— Masaoka Shiki
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Loud speech, profusion of words, and possessing skillfulness in expounding scriptures are merely for the enjoyment of the learned. They do not lead to liberation.
— Adi Shankara
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Officially there are no fates worse than death. Unofficially, there is a profusion of such fates. For some people, just living with the thought that…
— Thomas Ligotti
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Every kiss provokes another. Oh, in those earliest days of love how naturally the kisses spring to life! So closely, in their profusion, do they…
— Marcel Proust
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Growth is the surviving influence in all our lives. The tree will send up its trunk in thick profusion from land burned black by atom…
— Chester Himes
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I place economy among the first and most important virtues and public debt as the greatest dangers to be feared... We must not let our…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Ella's supersonic voice followed her all the way to Bleecker Street and then dissolved amid the noisy profusion of shops, cafes, and restaurants and the…
— Francine Pascal
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This profusion of eccentricities, this dream in masonry and living rock is not a drop scene in a theatre, but a city in the world…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Devotion means a profusion of life.
— Jaggi Vasudev
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Nature would not appear so rich, the profusion so rich, if we knew a use for everything.
— Henry David Thoreau
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A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull…
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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This is America, This vast, confused beauty, This staring, restless speed of loveliness, Mighty, overwhelming, crude, of all forms, Making grandeur out of profusion, Afraid…
— Amy Lowell
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Comely was the town by the curving river that they dismantled in a year's time. Beautiful was Colleton in her last spring as she flung…
— Pat Conroy
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Is it not a thing most abominable, that God who feeds so many mouths, should be held in such low esteem by me, that I…
— Martin Luther
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Whitecaps in profusion all around me, but somehow in your eyes I found the strength to sail upon that raging sea.
— Gordon Lightfoot
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Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that…
— Edmund Husserl
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Trying to imagine E. M. Forster, who found Ulysses indecorous, at a London performance of Lenny Bruce—to which in fact he was once taken. Trying…
— David Markson
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