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“Defend me, therefore, common sense, say From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up.”

Wells Common Growing Empty Drawing Common Sense Folly Toil Dropping Growing Old Buckets Reverie Airy

Author:William Cowper

“The senses at first let in particular Ideas, and furnish the yet empty Cabinet: And the Mind by degrees growing familiar with some of them, they are lodged in the Memory, and Names got to them.”

Mind Firsts Ideas Science Names Understanding Memories Growing Particular Degrees Empty Senses Familiar Cabinets

Book:The Locke Reader: Selections from the Works of John Locke with a General Introduction and Commentary

Source: The Locke Reader: Selections from the Works of John Locke with a General Introduction and Commentary

“Some huge work goes on growing. How could one person´s words matter? Where you walk heads pop from the ground. What is one seed head compared to you? On my death day I´ll know the answer. I have cleared this house, so that your work can, when it comes, fill every room. I slide like an empty boat pulled over the water.”

Knows Persons Matter House Water Answers Walks Rooms Growing Huge Goes On Empty Pops Seeds Boat Slides Words Matter

Author:Rumi

“There should be a word for that brief period just after waking when the mind is full of warm pink nothing. You lie there entirely empty of thought, except for a growing suspicion that heading towards you, like a sockful of damp sand in a nocturnal alleyway, are all the recollections you'd really rather do without, and which amount to the fact that the only mitigating factor in your horrible future is the certainty that it will be quite short.”

Should Mind Facts Lying Growing Amount Periods Empty Warm Horrible Factors Certainty Sand Waking Suspicion Headings Recollection Damp Nocturnal Alleyways

Author:Terry Pratchett

“Courage cannot be left like bones in a bag. It must be brought out and shown the light again and again, growing stronger each time. If you think it will keep for the times you need it, you are wrong. It is like any other part of your strength. If you ignore it, the bag will be empty when you need it most.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Light Left Growing Empty Stronger Bones Bags Again And Again Growing Stronger

Book:Conqueror: The Complete 5-Book Collection

Source: Conqueror: The Complete 5-Book Collection

“Ideas were growing in all directions and dimensions; they were becoming a sculpture, or a castle. And then everyone left her, to return to their own affairs; and she was alone, and empty and unbelieving again.”

Ideas Left Growing Return Becoming Empty Affair Dimensions Sculpture Castles

Book:Bitterblue

Source: Bitterblue

“Life can be so good if you let it. But you must trade with life. You give something and you get something, then you give something of yourself again and you receive something again. Life goes bad when people try to take from it without giving. Then they came away empty-handed, and they grab harder and more often, growing more disappointed and disillusioned each time.”

People Ifs Giving Trying Growing Empty Harder Trade Disappointed Disillusioned

Author:Judith McNaught

“The lack of human voices really gets to me. I never realized that we need to talk with other people just to know that we exist. That we matter. Loneliness is a howling, empty cavern inside of me that just keeps growing.”

People Knows Needs Humans Matter Voice Growing Loneliness Empty Human Voice Caverns

Author:Cheryl Rainfield