"Covetousness bursts the sack and spills the grain." — Walter Scott

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• A lot of my life happened in great, wonderful bursts of good fortune, and then I would race to be… — Julie Andrews
• Then sleep the seasons, full of might; While slowly swells the pod, And rounds the peach, and in the night… — Coventry Patmore
• Gradually, at various points in our childhoods, we discover different forms of conviction. There's the rock-hard certainty of personal experience… — Philip Pullman
• I only tour in short bursts, I'm only ever away from my family and three daughters for a month or… — Harry Connick, Jr.
• I have bursts of being a lady, but it doesn't last long. — Shelley Winters
• It was a heavenly summer, the summer in which France fell and the British Expeditionary Force was evacuated from Dunkirk.… — Eva Ibbotson
• Pressure bursts pipes. I thank God for giving me peace of mind to overcome pressure. The difference between winning and… — Evander Holyfield
• Bursts of gold on lavender melting into saffron. It's the time of day when the sky looks like it has… — Mia Kirshner
• These neutrino observations are so exciting and significant that I think we're about to see the birth of an entirely… — John N. Bahcall
• I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
• From the Great Depression, to the stagflation of the seventies, to the current economic crisis caused by the housing bubble,… — Ron Paul
• Grieving, like being blind, is a strange business; you have to learn how to do it. We seek company in… — Ursula K. Le Guin

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