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“Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive” quote by Petrarch — Download Open image

“Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive”

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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.

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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.

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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

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I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.

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I can't say that there are 'things' that make me come alive. There are thoughts that make me come alive.

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We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.

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If Jovan Belcher didn't possess a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today.

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I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly…

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