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LUCIFER: Only the chemistry of love can make Two atoms one.
Alfred Austin
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She sleeps up in the attic there
Alone, poor maid. 'Tis but a stair
Betwixt us. Oh! my God! the down,
The soft young down of her, the brown,
The brown of her—her eyes, her hair, her hair!
Charlotte Mew
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In your deep floods
Drown all my faults and fears;
Not let His eye
See sin, but through my tears.
Phineas Fletcher
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Walking about? With a hole in his forehead full of maggots" "Aye. It were like a damn fisherman's tub.
Adam Thorpe
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Pregnancy is a uniquely intimate relationship between two people. All of us luxuriate in this relationship once, and half of us are lucky enough to be able to do it all over again a second time, from the other side as it were. Never again outside of pregnancy can we be so truly intwined with someone else, no matter how hard we try.
David Bainbridge
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If memory survived eternally, then indeed there might be justification for a belief in hell.
Stacy Aumonier
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Learning about ourselves is rather inconvenient because it turns the world we live in upside down.
Peter Kingsley (scholar)
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I know I could enchain him with a smile:
And lead him captive with a gentle word,
I scorn my look should ever man beguile,
Or other speech, than meaning to afford.
Elizabeth Tanfield Cary
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The onset of bayonets in the hands of the valiant is irresistible.
John Burgoyne
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Sometimes you remember your life in photographs that were never taken.
Jackie Kay
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Why was it, Lloyd wondered, that the people who wanted to destroy everything good about their country were the quickest to wave the national flag?
Ken Follett
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Yet as I watch the marvelous engineer Guess at wind-pressure, and on favoring wind Send forth at will her silk from stores within, One message for men's souls I seem to hear "Let others live to eat, I eat to spin, Joy's soul is work: God helps the worker's mind!"
Hardwicke Rawnsley
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The direct object of geology is, to unfold the solid substance of the earth — to discover by what causes its several parts have been either arranged or disorganized — and from what operations have originated the general stratification of its materials, the inequalities of its surface, and the vast variety of bodies that enter into its make.
John Mason Good
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In the war upon the powers of darkness, prayer is the primary and mightiest weapon, both in aggressive war upon them and their works; in the deliverance of men from their power; and against them as a hierarchy of powers opposed to Christ and His Church.
Jessie Penn-Lewis
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Oh, the gallant fisher's life,
It is the best of any
'Tis full of pleasure, void of strife,
And 'tis beloved of many.
John Chalkhill
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The "Theatre of the Absurd" has become a catch-phrase, much used and much abused. What does it stand for? And how can such a label be justified? Perhaps it will be best to attempt to answer the second question first. There is no organised movement, no school of artists, who claim the label for themselves. A good many playwrights who have been classed under this label, when asked if they belong to the Theatre of the Absurd, will indigniantly reply that they belong to no such movement — and quite rightly so. For each of the playwrights concerned seeks to express no more and no less his own personal vision of the world.
Yet critical concepts of this kind are useful when new modes of expression, new conventions of art arise.
Martin Esslin
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A man who so much resembled a Baked Alaska—sweet, warm and gungy on the outside, hard and cold within.
Of C. P. Snow
Francis King
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he was undoing the wooden box, and he took out the silver sword. "This is the best of my treasures," he said. "It will bring me luck. And it will bring you luck, because you gave it to me. I don't tell anybody my name - it is not safe. But because you gave me the sword and I didn't borrow it, I will tell you." He whispered. "It is Jan."
Ian Serraillier
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But what was a body? Dust, dung, urine, itches. It was the light within which was important, and it was not significant if that light endured after death, or if the soul was blinded eternally in the endless night of the suspired flesh.
Taylor Caldwell
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The more we study mind and matter scientifically the more we see that all things follow a natural sequence, a sequence as liable to work for our disadvantage as for our advantage. It flows like the water of a river, it falls like rain, it is as impartial as the sea. It is as innocent of malice as it is of compassion.
Llewelyn Powys
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Brands are the rock stars of commerce, and create many fans, both at home and abroad.
Simon Anholt
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Prevailing prayer requires a tender, compassionate heart, a deep solicitude for the glory of God and the good of His people. Nehemiah wept and mourned.
Arthur Wallis (Bible teacher)
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And therewith kest I doun myn eye ageyne,
Quhare as I sawe, walking under the tour,
Full secretly new cummyn hir to pleyne,
The fairest or the freschest yonge floure
That ever I sawe, me thoght, before that houre,
For quhich sodayn abate anon astert
The blude of all my body to my hert.
James I of Scotland
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I woke early like a condemned man to the naivety of birdsong.
Nick Drake
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Guests stay where you've put them, and carry on doing whatever you suggested they do, until you suggest they stop and do something else. If you leave them drinking a cup of tea and looking through your holiday slides, they're supposed to sit tight till you ask them to come and string beans in your kitchen.
Anne Fine
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