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Source: Lyrical Ballads and other Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth (Including Their Thoughts On Poetry Principles and Secrets): Collections of Poetry which marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature, including poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The Dungeon, The Nightingale, Dejection: An Ode

“Moderation is the key so I work certain amout of time and then I take a certain amount of time off.”

Certain Keys Amount Moderation Time Off

Author:Jimmy Buffett

“You can fall on your face easily if you go off in a certain direction. The Birds is a good example, some people are really phobic about birds flying over their heads, and some don't care. So, it's a personal thing.”

People Ifs Care Faces Certain Fall Example Bird Don't Care Flying Your Face Good Examples Personal Things Bird Flying

Author:George A. Romero

“Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.”

Way Mean Matter Certain Heaven Enjoyment Gratification

Author:Moliere

“Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.”

Giving Certain Air Gold Affair Miserable Charming

Author:Moliere

“One can build the Empire State Building, discipline the Prussian army, make a state hierarchy mightier than God, yet fail to overcome the unaccountable superiority of certain human beings.”

Humans States Certain Human Beings Failing Greatness Building Discipline Overcoming Army Empires Superiority Hierarchy Empire State Building Empire State

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“The imagination acquires by custom a certain involuntary, unconscious power of observation and comparison, correcting its own mistakes, and arriving at precision of judgment, just as the outward eye is disciplined to compare, adjust, estimate, measure, the objects reflected on the back of its retina.”

Eye Certain Imagination Mistake Objects Judgment Observation Compare Acquire Unconscious Comparison Customs Precision Arriving Correcting Involuntary

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery.”

Certain Air Charity Philanthropy Quackery

Book:Essays and Lectures

Source: Essays and Lectures

“Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice.”

Certain Virtue Vices Dare Commit Innocence Audacity Calculating

Author:Honore de Balzac

“To concentrate implies bringing all your energy to focus on a certain point; but thought wanders away... Whereas attention has no control, no concentration. It is complete attention, which means giving all your energy, the energy of the brain, your heart, everything, to attending.”

Giving Heart Mean Certain Energy Attention Brain Focus Wander Concentration Attending

Book:The Flame of Attention

Source: The Flame of Attention

“Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less common is that of the borrowers, not to say a word of the purloiners”

Book Certain Common Subjects Accidents Collections Rats Worms Borrowing Damp Borrowers

Author:Isaac D'Israeli

“Fortunate Newton, happy childhood of science. Nature to him was an open book. He stands before us strong, certain, and alone.”

Book Certain Strong Childhood Fortunate Newton Open Book Happy Childhood

Author:Albert Einstein

“Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know. One often obtains a clue to a person's nature by discovering the reasons for his or her imperviousness to certain impressions.”

Knows Want Persons Reason Certain Impression Crucial Discovering Clue

Book:The Passionate State of Mind

Source: The Passionate State of Mind

“I spend a lot of time idly. I go to sporting events, play my clarinet. I practise. But if you work every day, a certain amount on a steady basis, the work accumulates.”

Ifs Play Certain Work Events Amount Bases Steady Practise Sporting Events Clarinet

Author:Woody Allen

“The Ford Falcon holds the proud title of Slowest Car Ever Built. In certain areas of the country you can go to a stoplight and find Falcon drivers who pressed down on their accelerators in 1963 and are still waiting for their cars to move.”

Stills Country Moving Certain Waiting Car Proud Built Areas Titles Drivers Falcon

Book:Dave Barry Talks Back

Source: Dave Barry Talks Back

“I can't bear to finish things, beyond a certain point they get heavy. There's something so dead about a finished painting.”

I Can Certain Painting Bears Heavy Finished Finishing

Book:The Coup

Source: The Coup

“You can do films for the fun of it, or the thrill of it, but certain films you can't do unless there's something driving you, something you have a passion for that will pull you through.”

Film Certain Passion Fun Can Do Driving Thrill

Author:Truman Capote

“If you're asking whether I intentionally mess up my hair, no, I don't. And certain things, like my freckles, they're just there. I don't do anything consciously. I suppose I could get contact lenses. I suppose I could comb my hair more often.”

Ifs Certain Hair Asking Contact Mess Lenses Combs Freckles Contact Lenses

Author:Bill Gates

“Learn the language that they understand, and when they come upon our doorstep to talk we can talk, and they will get the point. There will be a dialog, there will be some communication, and I am quite certain that then there will be some understanding.”

Certain Language Understanding Communication Doorstep

Author:Malcolm X

“Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a revenue; but to be content with our own is the greatest and most certain wealth of all.”

Certain Wealth Buying Revenue

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“There is a certain pleasure in weeping; grief finds in tears both a satisfaction and a cure.”

Certain Pleasure Grief Tears Satisfaction Cures Weeping

Author:Ovid

“Every man may be observed to have a certain strain of lamentation, some peculiar theme of complaint on which he dwells in his moments of dejection.”

Men May Moments Certain Every Man Theme Peculiar Complaints Strain Lamentation

Book:The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. in Verse and Prose: Containing the Principal Notes of Drs. Warburton and Warton: Illustrations, and Critical and Explanatory Remarks, by Johnson, Wakefield, A. Chalmers ... and Others; to which are Added, Now First Published, Some Original Letters, with Additional Observations, and Memoirs of the Life of the Author

Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. in Verse and Prose: Containing the Principal Notes of Drs. Warburton and Warton: Illustrations, and Critical and Explanatory Remarks, by Johnson, Wakefield, A. Chalmers ... and Others; to which are Added, Now First Published, Some Original Letters, with Additional Observations, and Memoirs of the Life of the Author

“A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity not conceit can exist in the same atmosphere with it.”

Certain Amount Vanity Atmosphere Distrust Conceit

Author:Samuel Johnson

“There is a certain race of men that either imagine it their duty, or make it their amusement, to hinder the reception of every work of learning or genius, who stand as sentinels in the avenues of fame, and value themselves upon giving Ignorance and Envy the first notice of a prey.”