"Look in the mirror. The face that pins……" — Diane Ackerman
"Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret."
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128 Quotes by Diane Ackerman
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Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood…
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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of…
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A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at…
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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
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I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.
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Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight.
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It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.
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Success produces success, just as money produces money.
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We live on the leash of our senses.
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Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons…
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Habitats keep evolving new pageants of species, and we shouldn't interfere.
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Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable.
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More Chastening Quotes
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Golf acts as a corrective against sinful pride. I attribute the insane arrogance of the later Roman Emperors almost entirely…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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Look upon your chastening as God's chariots sent to carry your soul into the high places of spiritual achievement.
— Hannah Whitall Smith
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Women singly do a good deal of harm. Women in bulk are chastening.
— Frank Moore Colby
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We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to…
— Oswald Chambers
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If we spend the time we waste in sighing for the perfect golden fruit in fulfilling the conditions of its…
— Helen Keller
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My witness is, that those who are honoured of their Lord in public, have usually to endure a secret chastening,…
— Charles Spurgeon
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The Republic needed to be passed through chastening, purifying fires of adversity and suffering: so these came and did their…
— Horace Greeley
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Lexicography is a chastening as well as an illuminating and fascinating art.
— Robert Burchfield
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Speak, Lord”; make time to listen. Chastening is more than a means of discipline, it is meant to get me…
— Oswald Chambers
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Corn is cleaned with wind, and the Soul with chastening
— George Herbert
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It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in…
— Abraham Lincoln
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LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them. (Isaiah 26:16)
— Bible
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