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“The earth does not argue, Is not pathetic, has no arrangements, Does not scream, haste, persuade, threaten, promise, Makes no discriminations, has no conceivable failures, Closes nothing, refuses nothing, shuts none out.”

Doe Earth Promise Environmental Refuse Arguing Discrimination Scream Arrangements Pathetic Haste

Author:Walt Whitman

“We need to see, and agree that what we seek already lives within us, and we within it. Now we know our one great task: watch for whatever promises us freedom, and then quietly, consciously refuse to see ourselves through the eyes of what we know is incomplete. Then we live wholeness itself, instead of spending our lives looking for it.”

Knows Needs Eye Watches Our Lives Promise Tasks Agree Refuse Spending Wholeness Incomplete Through The Eyes

Author:Guy Finley

“My friend had a brilliant idea. This impressed me. It reflected an immense deal of credit on his brain. But when he expressed it,it lost all value, and enjoyed but a commonplace status. My friend blamed this devaluation on the language. "I hate English," he said. So he studied another language. He mastered it so perfectly that there was no room left in his brain for a brilliant idea. Now he has a grudge against words. He refuses to use them. He prefers to shrug or grunt. A new crop of ideas is growing. They show promise of future refinement.”

“All men have a feeling, that they would rather you told them a civil lie than give them a point blank refusal.... If you make a promise, the thing is still uncertain, depends on a future day, and concerns but few people; but if you refuse you alienate people to a certainty and at once, and many people too.”

People Ifs Men Giving Stills Feelings Lying Depends Promise Concern Refuse Certainty Blank Uncertain Refusal

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Blessed are the powers that grant me magic. I promise to use their gift well. To help mend my world. To help mend all worlds. And should I forget to mend, Should I refuse to mend, Still I will remember To do no harm.”

World Should Wells Stills Helping Use Remember Forget Magic Promise Blessed Refuse Harm Help Me Grants Should I I Promise

Book:Faerie After: Book 3 of the Bones of Faerie Trilogy

Source: Faerie After: Book 3 of the Bones of Faerie Trilogy

“Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.”

Hands Praying Promise Refuse Tongue Admire Command Appeals Variation Envious Mock Menace Cringe Multiplication

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“One must always be careful of books,' said Tessa, 'and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.' 'I'm not sure a book has ever changed me,' said Will. 'Well there is one volume that promises to teach one how to turn oneself into an entire flock of sheep-' 'Only the very weak minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry,' said Tessa, determined not to let him run wildly off with the conversation.”

Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess