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“Somewhere there waiteth in this world of ours For one lone soul another lonely soul, Each choosing each through all the weary hours, And meeting strangely at one sudden goal, Then blend they, like green leaves with golden flowers, Into one beautiful and perfect whole; And life's long night is ended, and the way Lies open onward to eternal day.”

World Way Love Long Soul Whole Beautiful Lying Night Goal Hours Perfect This World Flower Eternal Lonely Green Meetings Golden Weary Lone Long Nights Green Leaves

Author:Edwin Arnold

“From the disease of one the whole flock perishes.”

Whole Disease Flocks

Author:Juvenal

“The whole race is a poet that writes down / The eccentric propositions of its fate.”

Writing Whole Race Fate Poet Propositions Eccentric

Book:The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

“Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bodies, but all the power on earth has been unable to subdue love. Man has conquered whole nations, but all his armies could not conquer love. Man has chained and fettered the spirit, but he has been utterly helpless before love. Thus love has the magic power to make of a beggar a king.”

Men World Has Beens Whole Body Earth Spirit Nations Brain Millions Magic Kings Army Conquer Helpless Beggar Chained Magic Powers

Book:Anarchism and Other Essays

Source: Anarchism and Other Essays

“The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide; Earth's distant ends our glory shall behold, And the new world launch forth to seek the old.”

World Ends Whole Earth Nations Sea Mankind Wind Glory Flow Regions Divides New World Tides Swelling Thames

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Alexander Pope (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alexander Pope (Illustrated)

“This is that eloquence the ancients represented as lightning, bearing down every opposer; this the power which has turned whole assemblies into astonishment, admiration and awe- - that is described by the torrent, the flame, and every other instance of irresistible impetuosity.”

Whole Instance Flames Awe Admiration Lightning Irresistible Assembly Eloquence Astonishment Opposers

Book:The Miscellaneous Works: The bee. Essays. An inquiry into the present state of polite learning in Europe. Prefaces and introductions

Source: The Miscellaneous Works: The bee. Essays. An inquiry into the present state of polite learning in Europe. Prefaces and introductions

“You know how often the turning down this street or that, the accepting or rejecting of an invitation, may deflect the whole current of our lives into some other channel. Are we mere leaves, fluttered hither and thither by the wind, or are we rather, with every conviction that we are free agents, carried steadily along to a definite and pre-determined end?”

Knows May Ends Whole Accepting Know How Our Lives Streets Wind Mere Currents Conviction Determined Agents Definite Invitations Rejecting Free Agents

Book:Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)

Source: Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)

“The creator must be a world for himself and must find everything in himself and in Nature, to whom his whole life is devoted.”

World Whole Life Is Creator Whole Life Obsession Devoted

Book:Letters to a Young Poet

Source: Letters to a Young Poet

“It's love,' they say. You touch the right one and a whole half of the universe wakes up, a new half.”

Whole Universe Half Wake Up

Book:Ask Me: 100 Essential Poems of William Stafford

Source: Ask Me: 100 Essential Poems of William Stafford

“You were aimed from birth: you will never be alone... The whole wide world pours down.”

World Whole Purpose Birth Wide

Author:William Stafford

“A student comes to me with a piece of writing, holds it out, says, 'Is this good?' A whole sequence of emergencies goes off in my mind. That's not a question to ask anyone but yourself.”

Writing Mind Whole Asks Pieces Students Emergencies Sequence

Author:William Stafford

“In the whole history of this country, we have probably won more friends from the power of our example than from the power of our military.”

Country Whole Military Example

Author:William J. Clinton

“And Thou, vast Ocean! on whole awful face Time's iron feet can print no ruin trace.”

Whole Faces Feet Ocean Ruins Awful Iron Print Vast Ocean

Author:Robert Montgomery

“It hasn't been a totally smooth road, but in the whole span of things I feel like a very lucky person.”

Feels Persons Whole Lucky Smooth Lucky Person

Author:Edward Furlong

“When the whole and the parts are seen at once, as mutually producing and explaining each other, as unity in multeity, there results shapeliness.”

Whole Form Results Unity Explaining

Book:Letters

Source: Letters

“Only let a man say that he will do something and a whole mechanism goes to work to stop him.”

Men Whole Difficulty Mechanism

Author:John Steinbeck

“The whole dating ritual was different when I was a kid. Girls got pinned, not nailed.”

Different Whole Kids Girl Dating Ritual

Author:Bill Maher

“The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.”

Whole Seems Courses Nature Nothingness

Author:Philip James Bailey

“It's a question of not so much pushing the boys out of the picture, but making the whole frame bigger so that both men and women access the labor market, contribute to the economy, generate growth, have jobs, and so on.”

Men Whole Jobs Growth Boys Economy Men And Women Labor Bigger Access Pushing

Author:Christine Lagarde

“The work produced is a thing among things, able to be experienced and described as a sum of qualities. But from time to time it can face the receptive beholder in its whole embodied form.”

Whole Able Faces Form Quality Receptive Beholder

Book:I and Thou

Source: I and Thou

“This is the risk: the primary word can only be spoken with the whole being. He who gives himself to it may withhold nothing of himself.”

Giving May Whole Risk Primaries

Book:I and Thou

Source: I and Thou

“Did you ever have something to say and feel as if the whole side of the wall wouldn't be big enough to say it on, and then sit down on the floor and try to get it onto a sheet of charcoal paper?”

Ifs Feels Trying Enough Whole Bigs Sides Wall Paper Sheets Charcoal

Book:Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life

Source: Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life

“It is impossible to tell you the perfect sweetness of the lips and closed eyes, nor the solemnity of the seal of death which is set upon the whole figure. It is, in every way, perfect--truth itself, but truth selected with inconceivable refinement of feeling.”

Way Whole Feelings Eye Perfect Impossible Figures Masters Lips Sweetness Seals Selected Refinement Solemnity Closed Eyes

Book:The works of John Ruskin

Source: The works of John Ruskin

“Try in thine own experience, each; that he speak not for one whole day unkindly of any... and see what such a day would bring to you.”

Trying Whole Speak Kindness

Author:Edgar Cayce

“Whole sight; or all the rest is desolation.”

Whole Sight Desolation

Book:Daniel Martin

Source: Daniel Martin

“Know that however ugly the parts appear the whole remains beautiful.”

Knows Whole Beautiful Beauty Remains Ugly Wholeness

Book:The Collected Letters of Robinson Jeffers: With Selected Letters of Una Jeffers

Source: The Collected Letters of Robinson Jeffers: With Selected Letters of Una Jeffers

“But when reflexion begins to play upon these objects... like some trick of magic each object is loosed into a group of impressions - colour, odour, texture... And if we continue to dwell in thought on this world... the whole scope of observation is dwarfed into the narrow chamber of the individual mind.”

Ifs World Mind Play Whole Individual Magic Groups Objects This World Tricks Impression Observation Colour Scope Chamber Texture Impressionism

Author:Walter Pater

“It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world.”

World Country Whole Kindness Pride Whole World Patriotism Nationalism Patriotic Patriot World Citizen Patriotism And Nationalism Country Love Baha

Author:Bahá'u'lláh

“My whole academic career was totally out of Jewish anxiety, and issues surrounding achievement and adequacy.”

Whole Careers Issues Achievement Anxiety Academic Adequacy

Author:Ram Dass

“When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won't intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.”

Said Real Done Whole Literature Glasses Real Life Drunk Cynicism Drunkenness Barrels Said And Done

Author:Anton Chekhov

“There is never any fair and thorough discussion of heretical opinions... The greatest harm done is to those who are not heretics, and whose whole mental development is cramped and their reason cowed, by the fear of heresy.”

Reason Done Whole Opinion Development Speech Fairs Harm Oppression Discussion Heresy Thorough Heretic Free Thought

Book:On Liberty

Source: On Liberty

“I devour nature ceaselessly. I exaggerate, sometimes I make changes in the subject; but still I don't invent the whole picture. On the contrary, I find it already there. It's a question of picking out what one wants from nature.”

Want Stills Sometimes Whole Nature Subjects Contrary Making Changes Whole Picture

Book:Van Gogh on Art and Artists: Letters to Emile Bernard

Source: Van Gogh on Art and Artists: Letters to Emile Bernard

“Slyly, banteringly, but also overbearingly, the critic - the one who does not swallow anything whole, who waits until posterity has consecrated it before... howling - is among those who howl their admiration the way they howl their insults: don't be afraid, don't tremble - the beast doesn't have any nails or teeth, or even brain: it is stuffed.”

Way Doe Whole Waiting Brain Critics Teeth Beast Insult Admiration Nails Posterity Howl

Book:The writings of a savage

Source: The writings of a savage

“Price fixing does not represent simply windfall gains and losses to particular groups according to whether the price happens to be set higher or lower than it would be otherwise. It represents a net lose to the economy as a whole to the extent that many transactions do not take place at all, because the mutually acceptable possibilities have been reduced.”

Doe Has Beens Whole Happens Would Be Loses Loss Economy Groups Possibility Particular Higher Gains Acceptable Fixing Transactions Gains And Losses

Author:Thomas Sowell

“The stricter standards and independent, often conclusive, evidence in the physical sciences cannot be generalized to intellectual activity as a whole, even though the aura of scientific processes and results is often appropriated by other intellectuals.”

Whole Process Results Activity Intellectual Standards Evidence Independent Auras Physical Science

Book:Knowledge And Decisions

Source: Knowledge And Decisions

“The anointed don't like to talk about painful trade-offs. They like to talk about happy "solutionsthat get rid of the whole problem- at least in their imagination.”

Whole Problem Imagination Society Trade Painful Trade Offs

Book:Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays

Source: Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays

“I'd have a whole lot more money if I lied, but I wouldn't enjoy spending it.”

Ifs Whole Enjoy Money Spending More Money Vocal Lied

Author:Martina Navratilova

“It would be a very bad idea... to exhibit even a small number of this new series, as the whole effect can only be achieved from an exhibition of the entire group.”

Ideas Whole Would Be Numbers Groups Effects Series Exhibits Bad Ideas Exhibitions Small Numbers

Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

“While a great many other ideas and measures are of prime importance for the good life of the community, that which concerns its architectural expression is the notion of the community as limited in numbers, and in area... To express these relations clearly, to embody them in buildings and roads and gardens in which each individual structure will be subordinated to the whole - this is the end of community planning.”

Ideas Ends Whole Individual Community Numbers Building Expression Areas Concern Garden Importance Relation Structure Notion Architecture Planning Great Men Prime Good Life

Author:Lewis Mumford

“Man is whole when he is in tune with the winds, the stars, and the hills... Being in tune with the universe is the entire secrets.”

Men Whole Universe Stars Secret Wind Hills Tunes

Author:William O. Douglas

“In meditative prayer, one thinks and speaks not only with the mind and lips, but in a certain sense with one's whole being... All good meditative prayer is a conversation of our entire self to God.”

Thinking Mind Self Whole Certain Speak Prayer Conversation Lips Praying To God

Author:Thomas Merton

“One might say I have decided to marry the silence of the forest. The sweet dark warmth of the whole world will have to be my wife.”

World Whole Might Dark Silence Wife Sweet Decided My Wife Whole World Forests Warmth

Book:Day of a stranger

Source: Day of a stranger

“My father used to brag that I wasn't a ham, I was the whole pig.”

Whole Used Father Humour Pigs Ham Brag

Author:Jim Carrey

“For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.”

World Whole Home Rooms Prison Whole World Native

Book:The Poems of Cowley

Source: The Poems of Cowley

“In history the way of annihilation is invariably prepared by inward degeneration, by decrease of life. Only then can a shock from outside put an end to the whole.”

Way Ends Whole Society Prepared Shock Inward Decrease Annihilation Degeneration

Book:Force and Freedom: Reflections on History

Source: Force and Freedom: Reflections on History

“Some of the days in November carry the whole memory of summer as a fire opal carries the color of moonrise.”

Whole Memories Fire Color Summer Carrie November Opal

Author:Gladys Taber

“What we have got to do now is use this event, the resignation of the whole commission, to drive through root and branch reform.”

Whole Use Events Roots Reform Branches Resignation Roots And Branches

Author:Tony Blair

“A whole generation of writers dined out on the dialectic between original cultures and their culture by "progress.”

Whole Culture Progress Generations Originals Dialectics

Author:Anatole Broyard

“I am also an artist. I have the whole world as my canvas. I paint souls.”

World Soul Whole Artist Paint Whole World Canvas

Book:The Answer: Conversations with Meher Baba

Source: The Answer: Conversations with Meher Baba

“This whole universe, with all its vastness, grandeur and beauty, is nothing but sheer imagination. In spite of so many discoveries, researches and scientific knowledge, the creation remains a great unsolved riddle.”

Whole Universe Imagination Creation Research Discovery Remains Spite Sheer Grandeur Riddle Vastness Scientific Knowledge

Author:Meher Baba

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