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In the sublime imagination of the Beatific Vision, he catches a hint of a deeper reality, but why, he asks, this distinction between time and eternity? Can the apprehension of the Infinite Good be conditioned by the clock? Oh, for a knowledge undimensioned, untimed, effect of no cause, cause of no effect!
Sister Nivedita
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History, in the end, is only another kind of story, and stories are different from the truth. The truth is messy and chaotic and all over the place. Often it just doesn't make sense. Stories make things make sense, but the way they do that is to leave out anything that doesn't fit. And often that is quite a lot.
Paul Murray (author)
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I was like one who, having discovered the ancient Eden still existing in all its primitive glory, should resolve to enjoy it in solitude, and never betray to mortal the secret of its locality. The rod of my life was bent at this moment. I destined myself to be a microscopist.
Fitz James O'Brien
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Some of us made it
To the forest edge, but many of us did not
Make it, although their unborn children did—
Such as you whom the camp commandant branded
Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols. Jesus, break his fall:
There—but for the clutch of luck—go we all.
Paul Durcan
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Who dreads to the dust returning?
Who shrinks from the sable shore,
Where the high and haughty yearning
Of the soul can sting no more?
Bartholomew Dowling
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And in their rush to create wonders, they have ignored the wonders all around them, ignored the mysteries, the beauty.
Michael Scott (Irish author)
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Here is a truth, a truth by which to live: there is hope. There is always hope. If we choose to abandon it, our souls will turn to ash and blow away.
John Connolly (author)
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And your police are like our police in the Realm?' Blue said. 'They flog you if you do something wrong and cut off your hand if you're caught stealing?' No, they don't do that, Henry said uncertainly. Why not? It's pretty silly not to, isn't it?' Blue said.
James Herbert Brennan
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Meningitis. It was a word you had to bite on to say it. It had a fright and a hiss in it.
Seamus Deane
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When Spring came on with fresh delight
To cheer the soul, and charm the sight
While every easy breezes, softer rain
And warmer suns salute the plain
Thomas Parnell
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The Greeks were the first boxers. Pugilism appears to have been one of the earliest distinctions in play and exercise that appeared between the Hellenes and their Asiatic fathers. The unarmed personal encounter was indicative of a sturdier manhood.
John Boyle O'Reilly
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How many chapters have been written about love verses - and how many more might be written! - might, would, could, should, or ought to be written! - I will venture to say, will be written!
Samuel Lover
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Temperamentally, the writer exists on happenings, on contacts, conflicts, action and reaction, speed, pressure, tension. Were he acontemplative purely, he would not write.
Elizabeth Bowen
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Each lost soul will be a hell unto itself, the boundless fire raging in its very vitals.
James Joyce
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Nor elves, nor fays, nor magic charm, Have pow'r, or will, to work us harm; For those who dare the truth to tell, Fays, elves, and fairies, wish them well.
Maria Edgeworth
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An Irishman I am, begora! With a heart and a spirit on
me not crushed be a hundred years of oppression. I'll be getting me
shillelagh out next, wait'll you see.
Martin McDonagh
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It is only the happy who are hard, Gilles. I think perhaps it is better for the world if - if one has a broken heart. One is quick to recognise it, elsewhere. And one has time to think about other people, if there is nothing left to hope for any more.
Helen Waddell
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A wind-vane changeable huff-puff
Always is a woman.
Richard Stanihurst
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Wise is the man who prepares both for his own death and the death of his friends; who makes use of the foresight of troubles so as to abate the uneasiness of them...
Thomas Amory (author)
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Well, there's nothink lower than Nature, An She Goes As 'Igh As 'Eaven!
Clotilde Graves
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Remember,even if we can't see them, those we love are always with us.
Lucinda Riley
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Your guardian angel loves you and you are precious to them - you are the most important person in the world to them and, they have to do everything they can for you.
Lorna Byrne
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What's lost upon the roundabouts we pulls up on the swings!
Patrick R. Chalmers
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Far as distress the soul can wound
'Tis pain in each degree;
Bliss goes but to a certain bound,
Beyond is agony.
Frances Greville
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Whatsoever contradicts my sense,
I hate to see, and never can believe.
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
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