216.Quotes On Nature:Passion:Past:Pain:Pleasure-Part 6

"Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than they, reveal their true nature which is not human, but nymphic (that is, demoniac);and these chosen creatures I propose to ." -Vladimir Nabokov-

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"I am at two with nature.".-Woody Allen-

"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor, to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread.".-Anatole France-

"What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning".-Barbara de Angelis

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"It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.".-Cardinal J. Newman-

"Laughter is higher than all pain.".-Elbert Hubbard-

"A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain.".-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow-

"There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control.".-Leo Buscaglia-

"We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.".-Oscar Wilde-

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"The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.".-Adrienne Rich-

"As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.".-Antisthenes-

"Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.".-Blaise Pascal-

"We must select the Illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.".-Cyril Connolly-

"In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality. The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.".-George Santayana-

"Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.".-Laurence Sterne-

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"As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.".-Oliver Wendell Holmes-

"The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-

"For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.".-Amy Lowell-

"If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.".-Bernard M. Baruch-

"That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.".-Boris Pasternak-

"We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.".-Christian Nevell Bovee-

"The past is the teat that feeds those too weak to face the future".-Dean Koontz-

"The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.".-Ernest Dimnet-

"Nothing changes more constantly than the past;for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what actually happened, but of what men believe happened.".-Gerald W. Johnson-

"If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.".-Hunter S. Thompson-

"Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind.".-Louis Pasteur-

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"With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head.".-Louis-Ferdinand Celine-

"The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.".-Oscar Wilde-

"Henry James seems most entirely in his element, doing that is to say what everything favors his doing, when it is a question of recollection. The mellow light which swims over the past, the beauty which suffuses even the commonest little figures of that".-Virginia Woolf-

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"Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a vicious life is a life of uninterrupted pleasure. It is a life almost as wearisome and painful - if strenuously led - as Christian's in The Pilgrim's Progre".-Aldous Huxley-

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