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The weight that hangs upon our eyelids - is of lead. ↗


— Mary Chesnut


#lead #our #upon #weight

Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity. ↗


— Geoffrey Chaucer


#agree #chastity #filth #i #old

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world. ↗


— John Updike


#few #few men #foolish #goodness #hence

I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe? ↗


— Kate Chopin


#branches #breathe #chord #detect #ear

Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man. ↗


— John Updike


#certain #decided #forced #her #herself

Just about any story we think about doing, whether we've read it in a newspaper, heard it on the radio or come upon it through word of mouth - by the time you get there, every other network, cable station and talk show is already racing to the scene. ↗


— Connie Chung


#already #any #by the time #cable #come

But this Christ or Redeemer took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that is, human nature, that in the nature which sinned he might make the expiation required. ↗


— Adam Clarke


#angels #christ #him #human #human nature

Research to me is as important or more important than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built. ↗


— Leon Uris


#built #foundation #important #me #more

He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already in his heart. ↗


— William Kingdon Clifford


#after #already #believes #committed #heart

I cannot separate the finances of India from those of England. If the finances of the Indian Government receive any severe and irreparable check, will not the resources of England be called upon to meet the emergency, and to supply the deficiency? ↗


— Richard Cobden


#called #cannot #check #deficiency #emergency






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