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“The ladies pass the timee with gossip and hearsay. This is what they have in place of freedom- gime and gossip. Their lives are small and careful. I do not wish to live this way. I should like to make my mark. To venture opinions that may not be polite or even correct but are mine nonetheless. If I am to be hanged for anything, I should like to feel that I go to the gallows on my own strength.”

Ifs Way Feels Should May Wish My Own Opinion Mines Mark Careful Gossip Venture Polite Gallows Hearsay

Author:Libba Bray

“Mathin said: "It is best to take your opponent's sash. The kysin mark each blow dealt, but to cut off the other rider's sash is best. This you will do." "Oh," said Harry. "You may, if you wish, unhorse him first," Mathin added as an afterthought. "Thanks," said Harry.”

Ifs Firsts May Said Wish Cutting Mark Blow Thanks Opponents Riders Afterthought

Author:Robin McKinley

“Naturally, we are inclined to be so mathematical and calculating that we look upon uncertainty as a bad thing...Certainty is the mark of the common-sense life. To be certain of God means that we are uncertain in all our ways, we do not know what a day may bring forth. This is generally said with a sigh of sadness; it should rather be an expression of breathless expectation.”

Knows Way Should Looks May Mean Said Certain Common Sadness Expression Expectations Mark Common Sense Certainty Mathematical Uncertainty Bad Things Uncertain Sigh Calculating Breathless

Author:Oswald Chambers

“As Venus within Eros does not really aim at pleasure, so Eros does not aim at happiness. We may think he does, but when he is brought to the test it proves otherwise... For it is the very mark of Eros that when he is in us we had rather share unhappiness with the Beloved than be happy on any other terms.”

Thinking May Doe Term Pleasure Share Prove Tests Mark Aim Beloved Unhappiness Venus Eros

Author:C. S. Lewis

“One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting every one else to give it up. That is not the Christian way. An individual Christian may see fit to give up all sorts of things for special reasons--marriage, or meat, or beer, or the cinema; but the moment he starts saying the things are bad in themselves, or looking down his nose at other people who do use them, he has taken the wrong turning.”

People Men Way Giving May Reason Moments Use Christian Certain Individual Taken Special Type Fit Giving Up Mark Beer Noses Cinema Meat Bad Man Looking Down

Book:Mere Christianity

Source: Mere Christianity

“So may the outward shows be least themselves: The world is still deceived with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being seasoned with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament? There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.”

World May Stills Shows Law Evil Voice Simple Virtue Fairs Mark Assuming Errors Vices Appearance Bless Hiding Sober Deceived Gracious In-laws Brows Ornaments Tainted Merchant Of Venice

Author:William Shakespeare

“Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but need not scar us for life. It does mark us. What we allow the mark of our suffering to become is in our own hands.”

Thinking Needs May Doe Has Beens Hands Suffering Taught Mark Contrary Wounds Scar Unnecessary

Author:Bell Hooks

“But... when I left you, Bella, I left you bleeding. Jacob was the one to stitch you back up again. That was bound to leave it's mark - on both of you. I'm not sure those kinds of stitches dissolve on their own. I can't blame either of you for something I made necessary. I may gain forgiveness, but that doesn't let me escape the consequences.”

Kind May Made I Can Left Consequence Gains Let Me Mark Blame Bounds Not Sure Bleeding Eclipse Jacob Stitches

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“No enunciation of the Truth will ever be complete, no method of training will ever be suitable for all temperaments, no one can do more than mark out the little plot of infinity which he intends to cultivate, and thrust in the spade, trusting that the soil may eventually be fruitful and free from weeds so far as the bounds he has set himself extend.”

May Littles Can Do Training Mark Method Bounds Soil Plot Weed Infinity Temperament Thrust Suitable Spades

Book:Esoteric Orders And Their Work

Source: Esoteric Orders And Their Work

“I still preserve those relics of past sufferings and experience, like pillars of witness set up in travelling through the valve of life, to mark particular occurrences. The footsteps are obliterated now; the face of the country may be changed; but the pillar is still there, to remind me how all things were when it was reared.”

May Stills Country Past Faces Suffering Changed Particular All Things Mark Witness Preserves Footsteps Pillars Relics Valve

Author:Anne Bronte

“If I should labor through daylight and dark, Consecrate, valorous, serious, true, Then on the world I may blazon my mark; And what if I don't, and what if I do?”

Ifs World Should May Dark Serious Labor Mark What If Daylight

Book:Dorothy Parker

Source: Dorothy Parker

“The loved object is simply one that has shared an experience at the same moment of time, narcissistically; and the desire to be near the beloved object is at first not due to the idea of possessing it, but simply to let the two experiences compare themselves, like reflections in different mirrors. All this may precede the first look, kiss, or touch; precede ambition, pride, or envy; precede the first declarations which mark the turning point—for from here love degenerates into habit, possession, and back to loneliness.”

Source: The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea

“Please," Kendra said. "Think of all the lives that will be destroyed." "I have," Mark said. "Believe me, darling, I grasp all aspects of this, I really do. But how much has the public I'm protecting worried about me? My sanity, my happiness, my right to find peace?" "They made no promises," Bracken said. "They are not preventing the end of the world. Those who know about your sacrifice appreciate you immeasurably. Your life may not be fair, but it is absolutely necessary.”

“Bidding the wizard farewell, he turned to his daughter, who held up her finger and said, “Daddy, look — one of the gnomes actually bit me!” “How wonderful! Gnome saliva is enormously beneficial!” said Mr. Lovegood, seizing Luna’s outstretched finger and examining the bleeding puncture marks. “Luna, my love, if you should feel any burgeoning talent today — perhaps an unexpected urge to sing opera or to declaim in Mermish — do not repress it! You may have been gifted by the Gernumblies!” Ron, passing them in the opposite direction, let out a loud snort.”

“By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark of Adam may redress.”

Ifs Men May Stories Written Mark Adam Wickedness Clerks Oratory Redress

Author:Geoffrey Chaucer

“Days Pass By Somehow But Nights Now Are Wagon Of Pain Injuries May Heal With Time But Marks Will Always Remain Restless On My Comfortable Bed I Toss And Turn And Try To sleep But Thoughts Are Walking My Head And Formed A Huge Heap The Past Is Flashing Its Scorching Light Beams Tearing Me Apart, Breaking Me At The Seams The Darkness Of My Life Is More Visible In The Dark !!”

Trying May Light Pain Past Life Is Night Turns Dark Sleep Darkness Huge Walking Bed Comfortable Mark Heal Visible Injury Restless Beam Toss Wagons Scorching

Author:Ravinder Singh

“The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.”

“There is no merit where there is no trial; and till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes, and faith for falsehood.”

May Strength Hero Mark Trials Merit Coward Falsehood Stamps

Book:The Dramatic Works of Aaron Hill, Esq

Source: The Dramatic Works of Aaron Hill, Esq

“Apart from their other characteristics, the outstanding thing about China's 600 million people is that they are “poor and blank”. This may seem a bad thing, but in reality it is a good thing. Poverty gives rise to the desire for changes, the desire for action and the desire for revolution. On a blank sheet of paper free from any mark, the freshest and most beautiful characters can be written; the freshest and most beautiful pictures can be painted.”

“Christ choosing solitude for private prayer, doth not only hint to us the danger of distraction and deviation of thoughts in prayer, but how necessary it is for us to choose the most convenient places we can for private prayer. Our own fickleness and Satan's restlessness call upon us to get into such places where we may freely pour out our soul into the bosom of God [Mark 1.35].”

May Soul Christ Prayer Danger Solitude Mark Satan Distraction Convenient Hints Bosoms Restlessness Deviation

Book:The privie key of heaven; or Twenty arguments for closet-prayer, in a select discourse

Source: The privie key of heaven; or Twenty arguments for closet-prayer, in a select discourse

“Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of measles; a complaint which so commonly attacks the young of humanity in their infancy, and when gone through at that period leaves behind it so few fatal marks; but which when it normally attacks the fully developed adult becomes one of the most virulent and toxic of diseases, often permanently poisoning the constitution where it does not end in death.”

May Doe Ends Young Humanity Behinds Gone Periods Disease Adults Constitution Mark Slavery Toxic Complaints Infancy Poisoning Infantile Measles

Author:Olive Schreiner

“One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.”

“I wish I could remember the first day, First hour, first moment of your meeting me; If bright or dim the season it might be; Summer or winter for aught I can say. So, unrecorded did it slip away, So blind was i to see and to forsee, So dull to mark the budding of my tree That would not blossom, yet, for many a May.”

Ifs Firsts May I Can Moments Might Remember Wish Hours Tree Summer Seasons Mark Blind Meetings Winter Dull Slips Famous Love

Book:Selected Poems: Rossetti: Rossetti

Source: Selected Poems: Rossetti: Rossetti

“Existence loves laughter. You may have observed, or not, that man is the only animal in the whole of existence who is capable of laughing. Laughter is the only distinguishing mark that you are not a buffalo, you are not a donkey; you are a human being. Laughter defines your humanity and your evolution. And the greatest laugh is at your own ridiculous things.”

Men Humans May Whole Humanity Human Beings Animal Existence Laughing Evolution Capable Laughter Mark Ridiculous Donkey Buffalo Ridiculous Things Love Laughter

Author:Rajneesh

“Never throw mud. You may miss the mark, and you'll have dirty hands.”

May Hands Language Missing Communication Mark Dirty Mud Dirty Hands

Author:Joseph Parker

“Now, mark it. This may be strong language, but heed it. The people mean it, and, my friends of the Eastern Democracy, we bid farewell when you do that thing.”

People May Mean Funny Language Strong Democracy My Friends Mark Farewell Eastern Heed Bland

Author:Richard P. Bland

“It (the dash ) is a comfortable punctuation mark since even the most rigorous critic can seldom claim that any particular example of it is a misuse. Its overuse is its greatest danger, and the writer who can't resist dashes may be suspected of uncoordinated thinking.”

Thinking Writing May Danger Example Particular Comfortable Claims Mark Critics Misuse Punctuation Punctuation Marks

Author:Bergen Evans

“Our God is a God of love. He waits with open arms, and the unfolding of His merciful plan of salvation is not only therefore the mark of divine power but also the mark of God's relentless, redeeming love. It is a point well worth pondering because, among other reasons, it will help us to understand better why God, through the prophets, denounces sin and corruption in such scalding terms. He loves all of us, His spirit sons and daughters, but hates our vices. His denunciation of those vices may, if we are not careful, seem to obscure the enormous and perfect love He has for us.”

“Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being because he sometimes speaks. Language is the mark, the sign, not of his fall but of his original innocence. Through the Word we may regain the lost kingdom and recover powers we possessed in the far-distant past.”

Men May Sometimes Past Fall Lost Speak Language Mark Originals Kingdoms Innocence Our Time Possessed Marvelous

Book:Alternating Current

Source: Alternating Current

“To be lovingly present through the primal, naked pain that marks aspects of birth, and to be lovingly present through the difficult, heart-wrenching ending that marks aspects of death is to learn about life and love. Fear may be strong but love is stronger. Learning how to love includes learning how to make room for and transform fear. Learning how to live involves learning how to die. Love alone is the most potent power illuminating the breath's journey in between these thresholds. Love is the key. Love is the dance.”

“Best marks go to cheaters and memorizers. Marks depend on memorizing and not on real knowledge. When you cram into your head for a test you may get a high mark but forget it the next day. That's not an education. I suggest just Good and Bad at the end of the term on report cards. Or maybe nothing. Frank Allen”

May Real Ends Next Term Forget Depends Tests Mark Cards Reports Frank Next Day Good And Bad Forget It Cheater Memorizing Real Knowledge Report Cards

Book:Up the Down Staircase

Source: Up the Down Staircase

“We know nothing of the trials, sorrows and temptations of those around us, of pillows wet with sobs, of the life-tragedy that may be hidden behind a smile, of the secret cares, struggles, and worries that shorten life and leave their mark in hair prematurely whitened, and a character changed and almost recreated in a few days. Let us not dare to add to the burden of another the pain of our judgment.”

Source: The kingship of self-control [from Self-control, its kingship and majesty] by W.G. Jordon [sic].

“The concern for world evangelization is not something tacked on to a man's personal Christianity, which he may take or leave as he chooses. It is rooted in the character of the God who has come to us in Christ Jesus. Thus, it can never be the province of a few enthusiasts, a sideline or a specialty of those who happen to have a bent that way. It is the distinctive mark of being a Christian.”

“If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human things of life well lost if only he may attain something, do some good, great work, then I was never an artist.”

Ifs Thinking Humans Wells May Art Artist Lost Sweet Art Is Mark Sake Lost Love Great Work Renounce Sweet Love

Book:The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections

Source: The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections

“The veil deliberately marks women as private and restricted property, nonpersons. The veil sets women apart from men and apart from the world; it restrains them, confines them, grooms them for docility. A mind can be cramped just as a body may be, and a Muslim veil blinkers both your vision and your destiny. It is the mark of a kind of apartheid, not the domination of a race but of a sex.”

Men World Mind Kind May Body Sex Race Vision Destiny Mark Property Veils Domination Our Destiny Your Destiny Apartheid Blinkers

Book:Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations

Source: Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations

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