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“A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchased a few acres about nine miles from town, have built a house, and am cultivating a garden.”

Knows House Politician Built Garden Towns Miles Nine Disappointed Usual Refuge Cultivating Acres

Book:Correspondence [contin.] 1795-1804; 1777; 1791. Letters of H.G. 1789. Address to public creditors. 1790. Vindication of funding system. 1791

Source: Correspondence [contin.] 1795-1804; 1777; 1791. Letters of H.G. 1789. Address to public creditors. 1790. Vindication of funding system. 1791

“Home is the sacred refuge of our life.”

Home Our Lives Sacred Refuge

Book:The Works of John Dryden,: The life of John Dryden

Source: The Works of John Dryden,: The life of John Dryden

“The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge.”

World Absurd Refuge

Author:Albert Camus

“A refuge is supposed to prevent what? The genes from flowing out of sight? This refuge idea won't stop insects from moving across boundaries. That's absurd.”

Ideas Moving Sight Boundaries Absurd Genes Refuge Insects

Author:Jeremy Rifkin

“Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.”

Earth Heaven Slips Refuge Love Always

Author:George Sand

“In the city one clings to nostalgic and unreal signs of community, takes forced refuge in codes, badges and coteries; the city's life, of surfaces and locomotion, usually seems too dangerous and demanding to live through with any confidence.”

Seems Community Cities Dangerous Surface Code Refuge Unreal Nostalgic Badges

Author:Jonathan Raban

“Prayer is not a stratagem for occasional use, a refuge to resort to now and then. It is rather like an established residence for the innermost self. All things have a home: the bird has a nest, the fox has a hole, the bee has a hive. A soul without prayer is a soul without a home.”

Soul Self Use Home Prayer Bird All Things Holes Now And Then Bees Refuge Foxes Resorts Occasional Nests Residence Hives Stratagem

Book:Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays

Source: Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays

“Don't drink on an empty stomach: the main point of the refreshment is the enhancement of food. Don't drink if you have the blues: it's a junk cure. Drink when you are in a good mood. Cheap booze is a false economy. It's not true that you shouldn't drink alone: these can be the happiest glasses you ever drain. Hangovers are another bad sign, and you should not expect to be believed if you take refuge in saying you can't properly remember last night. (If you really don't remember, that's an even worse sign.)”

Ifs Should Lasts Remember Night Economy Drink Empty Glasses Mood Cures Stomach Refuge Last Night Junk Drains Hangover Booze Refreshments Good Mood Enhancement Empty Stomach

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“Not to get overly psychological about this, but it's probably why I became an actress in the first place: for that kind of freedom and refuge, as well as for the fact that I just love acting so much.”

Firsts Wells Kind Facts Acting Actresses Psychological Refuge

Author:Marisa Tomei

“Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.”

Country Action Politics Progress Politician Instinct Burden Corruption Cowardice Refuge Packs Incompetence Begets Clique Drawbacks Disloyalty

Author:Soong May-ling

“Shall hope prevail where clamorous hate is rife, Shall sweet love prosper or high dreams have place Amid the tumult of reverberant strife 'Twixt ancient creeds, 'twixt race and ancient race, That mars the grave, glad purposes of life, Leaving no refuge save thy succoring face?”

Dream Faces Purpose Hate Hope Race Sweet Leaving Ancient Glad Graves Purpose Of Life Creeds Refuge Mars Strife Sweet Love Tumult

Book:Struggle for independence: Indian freedom fighters. Sarojini Naidu

Source: Struggle for independence: Indian freedom fighters. Sarojini Naidu

“Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable.”

Ideas Choices Culture Comfortable Worship Familiar Refuge

Author:Hugh Mackay

“The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world.”

World Different Ends Suffering Realizing Millions Rights Palestinian Refuge Refugee Palestine Homeland Different Place Plight Displacement Diaspora

Author:Mahmoud Abbas

“The knowledge that refuge is available, when and if needed, makes the silent inferno of the desert more easily bearable. Mountains complement desert as desert complements city, as wilderness complements and completes civilization.”

Ifs Nature Cities Needed Civilization Mountain Silent Available Desert Wilderness Refuge Complement Bearable Inferno

Book:Desert Solitaire

Source: Desert Solitaire

“Patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings.”

Lasts Politics Refuge Scoundrels

Author:Bob Dylan

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