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All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to improve myself in winter evenings, and other leisure times. ↗

— John Woolman

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I was born in Northampton, in Burlington County, West Jersey, in the year 1720. ↗

— John Woolman

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My own will and desires were now very much broken, and my heart was with much earnestness turned to the Lord, to whom alone I looked for help in the dangers before me. ↗

— John Woolman

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There were a couple of years when I wanted to be a football player, but I really always wanted to be a singer. ↗

— Tom Wopat

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I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it. ↗

— Herman Wouk

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Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. ↗

— William Wordsworth

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The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours. ↗

— William Wordsworth

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To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. ↗

— William Wordsworth

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How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold. ↗

— William Wordsworth

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A lot of these people were getting to where they didn't need help anymore. You have to start all over again. ↗

— Sam Worthington

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