Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast.

Author: Robert Morgan

Author: Robert Morgan

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Fear is the main source of superstition and one of the main sources of cruelty.

Author: Bertrand Russell
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Each night at bedtime, I'd close the bedroom door, climb into bed, and settle in under the covers. W

Author: Paul Stefaniak
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If seeing her an hour before her lastWeak cough into all blackness I could yetBe held by chalk-white

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Be careful when getting what you exactly need in life.

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I think it's important for me to keep my childhood friends so that later on someone can appreciate h

Author: Jeff Kinney
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Absence is the figure of privation; simultaneously, I desire and I need. Desire is squashed against

Author: Roland Barthes
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The blast that swept him came off New Hampshire snow-fields and ice-hung forests. It seemed to have

Author: Edith Wharton
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In an enclosed space, a camel's breath can change the atmosphere of the room. Not only just the smel

Author: Steve Carell
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Give me the discipline to get rid of the stuff that's not important, the freedom to savor the stuff

Author: Vinita Hampton Wright
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Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.

Author: Benjamin Tucker
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What if I said I wanted a friend?' The ship crouches among the fresh-cut stalks. 'Or a lover? That's

Author: Benjanun Sriduangkaew
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The attitude of the people proves that not only do we want to, but that we can succeed in pulling ou

Author: Nicos Anastasiades
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Sometimes the guy you think is too nice, is just the guy trying his hardest to love you.

Author: Stephan Labossiere
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Writing is a wonderful way to spend the day. Particularly when the alternative is housework!

Author: J. Mary Masters
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As an adult, getting paid thousands of dollars a week to say, “Aye, Sir. Course laid in” is a seriou

Author: Wil Wheaton
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Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.

Author: Thomas Aquinas
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Dexter, I love you so much. So, so much, and I probably always will.' Her lips touched his cheek. 'I

Author: David Nicholls
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I'm shockingly terrible at action movies.

Author: Emma Stone
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Risk little, earn little. Risk much, earn much. Risk all, earn all.

Author: Matshona Dhliwayo
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The U.S.-China relationship is one of the most important bilateral relationships in the world.

Author: Max Baucus
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I wouldn’t be a good wife, but I would be a wife in a way that was cinematically compelling.

Author: Gabby Bess
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But I will not tell you how long or short the way will be; only that it lies across a river. But do

Author: C.S. Lewis
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The government is not your salvation. The government is not your road to prosperity. Hard work, educ

Author: Mia Love
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The existence of a limit to science is, however, made clear by its inability to answer childlike ele

Author: Sir Peter Medawar
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On the other hand, I think cats have Asperger's. Like me, they're very smart. And like me, sometimes

Author: Jodi Picoult
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An army of the people is invincible!

Author: Mao Zedong
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Emerson has what I believe is called a selective memory. He can recall minute details of particular

Author: Elizabeth Peters
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With the wings of knowledge, it is easier to fly toward the blue sky of wisdom.

Author: Debasish Mridha
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The secret of gospel change is being convinced that Jesus is the good life and the fountain of joy.

Author: Tim Chester
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My father is a huge horse racing fan, so I was introduced to the sport long before 'Seabiscuit.' But

Author: Elizabeth Banks
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Upnext" is your success... but before that, remember "up there" is your God who requires from you to

Author: Israelmore Ayivor
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It is called equanimity when one has no attachment with the good (the auspicious) and no abhorrence

Author: Dada Bhagwan
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Live to fight another day was an expression that did not take nto account the loved one who would di

Author: Robert Liparulo
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My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.

Author: Gary Oldman
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Life is as sad as a glass of grenadine.' ... It’s almost that. It is sad. But, at the same time, how

Author: Mylène Farmer
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The best compliment we can pay our past is to prophetically and bravely face today and tomorrow.

Author: Bernie Wiebe
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Let the living give thanks to our honored dead who have paid the ultimate sacrifice that the Constit

Author: Bob Latta
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If you want to know the value of a year, ask the student who was in the final year of his university

Author: Sunday Adelaja
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Any effort made in the present is like an investment in the future.

Author: Steven Redhead
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What Uncle Leo XIII never suspected was that his nephew's courage did not come from the need to surv

Author: Gabriel García Márquez
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Nature's design is fully economical. Human design follows this model when it minimizes information a

Author: Maggie Macnab
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In all change well looked into the germinal good out-vails the apparent ill.

Author: Francis Thompson
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A few fires flickered, plumes of dark smoke marring the ruby sky.

Author: Sarah J. Maas
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One who has no beloved in the country can never love the country.

Author: Wasif Ali Wasif
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-Truly, freeing oneself in one’s own mind is only the first step on a path of freedom.-

Author: Mark Alberto Yoder Nunez
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I do not like the situation but must endure to fulfil the dream.

Author: Unknown
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The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

Author: Lao Tzu
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He told m the best advice he could ever give me is all in this book. We need God's constant help and

Author: Rebecca DeMarino
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Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing els

Author: Ugo Betti
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I love when I wake up in the morning thinking about you.

Author: ZAKIYA AND MAJID
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A good husband makes a good wife.

Author: John Florio
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I felt for the first time, maybe ever, how much harder it was to be the adults. And I wasn't sure I

Author: Barbara Hall
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The world is always open, Waiting to be discovered.

Author: Dejan Stojanovic
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We just want you to be happy. Rand and Marybeth said that all the time, but they never explained how

Author: Gillian Flynn
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He took a step back to distance himself from her wicked, mind-consuming scent. In the future if he w

Author: Amy Jarecki
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So the day became one of waiting, which was, he knew, a sin: moments were to be experienced; waiting

Author: Neil Gaiman
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Even the brightest of dreams-come-true had shadowy recesses.

Author: James Luceno
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Everything you can imagine is real.

Author: Pablo Picasso
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So lately, been wonderingWho will be there to take my placeWhen I'm gone, you'll need love To light

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As it was, being a Zimbabwean immigrant was the worst thing a person could be in Southern Africa. Th

Author: Thabo Katlholo
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Wealth and intelligence should not be categorized as relatives.

Author: K.R. Royal
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Innovators are at their very heart visionaries who also have determination, dedication, passion and

Author: Pearl Zhu
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It is not accidental that the most unsympathetic characters in Austen's novels are those who are inc

Author: Azar Nafisi
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In our deepest valleys we are strengthened to climb our highest mountains.

Author: Matshona Dhliwayo
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There it was: a full confession. Sherlock Holmes had done it again, and as I marveled at my devastat

Author: Paul Auster
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The sun's brightness painted our shadows on the ground.

Author: Ishmael Beah
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During those times, only under piles of blankets did she feel substantial enough not to drift away;

Author: Seré Prince Halverson
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I have very diverse tastes in music, and I don't, like, make distinctions between what I can't and c

Author: Corey Taylor
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But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger.

Author: Arthur C. Clarke
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I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel

Author: Shawn Johnson
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Opportunities are visible to those who are looking for them.

Author: Mayur Ramgir
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BAIT GOATThere is a distance where magnets pull, we feel, having held them back. Likewise there is a

Author: Kay Ryan
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Buy a pup and your money will buyLove unflinching that cannot lie.

Author: Rudyard Kipling
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We need never be bound by the limitations of our previous or current thinking, nor are we ever locke

Author: Allan Lokos
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Passion isn't something that lives way up in the sky, in abstract dreams and hopes. It lives at grou

Author: Marcus Buckingham
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I'm pretty much a dinosaur in the studio. I like things hand-drawn, even today. The story artists us

Author: Walt Dohrn
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POLONIUS My lord, the queen would speak with you, and presently.HAMLET Do you see yonder cloud that'

Author: William Shakespeare
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The sun rolls along up Fourteenth Street and the ghost of a habit turns Cat's face into the light. S

Author: Cari Luna
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Love is about heartbreak, If you think it’s fulfillment, happiness, satisfaction, union, it's even m

Author: Glenn Hefley
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Be as peaceful as a dancing spring flower.

Author: Debasish Mridha
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There’s some comfort in seeing things go on; birds keep singing, buses keep running. But if you want

Author: Ashley Hay
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SINNERS are those who pretend to teach meditation

Author: Vishal Chipkar
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...Jesus responds to almost every question he's asked with...a question."What do you think? How do y

Author: Rob Bell
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Forming Holiness with filthy hands and heart which leads to a disastrous future is like trying to im

Author: Peter Isekiigbe DE Rock
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The drama teacher that I had in high school, back in Texas, was the only teacher who didn't kick me

Author: Steve Earle
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One of the things that I did before I ran for president is I was a professional speaker. Not a motiv

Author: Herman Cain
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Always remember the hankering for the 'other' is never for them, but to use them as a means of your

Author: Ramana Pemmaraju
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To look beyond our horizons is to acknowledge that we’ve hemmed ourselves in by creating them in the

Author: Craig D. Lounsbrough
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More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way.

Author: Glen Cook
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I don't have what it takes to inspire someone to become a "worldly" musician or rapper! I can't use

Author: Israelmore Ayivor
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It ain't no use putting up your umbrella till it rains!

Author: Alice Caldwell Rice
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To penetrate one's being one must go armed to the teeth.

Author: Paul Valery
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What in bloody hell is going on back there?" Angus boomed. "Some kind of cross-species orgy!

Author: Lisa Carlisle
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There was a beautiful time...

Author: Sylvia Plath
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Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remem

Author: Laura Ingalls Wilder
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There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That’s perfectly all right: it’s the aperture

Author: Carl Sagan
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I have played a few times in Barcelona, including the fantastic Olympic Stadium. It's undoubtedly on

Author: Jean-Michel Jarre
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Take care of your words and the words will take care of you.

Author: Amit Ray
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Those who decide to live in the Present, must leave their past behind. Once past has been left behin

Author: Frank Wanderer