"Your pot broken seemes better then my whole one."
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"A broken Altar, Lord, thy servant rears, Made of a heart, and cemented with tears."
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"A Caske and an ill custome must be broken."
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"When peace has been broken anywhere, the peace of all countries is in danger."
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"I scream for everything that has gone wrong. I scream for everything broken in our lives."
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"Living in a community with very wounded people, I came to see that I had lived most of my life as a tightrope artist trying to walk on a high, thin cable from one tower to the other, always waiting for the applause when I had not fallen off and broken my leg."
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"I worked out of Hollywood for 10 years and I had my heart broken half a dozen times, so I know all the things that can go wrong."
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"And all over the world, the old literature, the popular literature, is the same. It consists of very dignified sorrow and very undignified fun. Its sad tales are of broken hearts; its happy tales are of broken heads."
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"Obviously if any actions, even a lunatic's, can be causeless, determinism is done for. If the chain of causation can be broken for a madman, it can be broken for a man."
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"Broken heart. A pump after all, pumping thousands of gallons of blood every day. One fine day it gets bunged up and there you are... Old rusty pumps: damn the thing else. The resurrection and the life. Once you are dead you are dead."
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"Why should not our whole life and its scenery be actually thus fair and distinct? All our lives want a suitable background. They should at least, like the life of the anchorite, be as impressive to behold as objects in a desert, a broken shaft or crumbling mound against a limitless horizon."
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"something in me had got broken, but not so broken I didn't remember what it was."
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"It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough."
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"In the late summer of 1986, the band I had been in for five years stopped playing. Suddenly, I was on my own. This new state of bandlessness was, at first, traumatic. When your group breaks up, a lot of broken parts hit the ground."
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"To get a human through a life, lives of broken bones, knock-me-over-with-a-feather susceptibility to myriad viruses, and whatever else might befall someone will cost money."
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"The smoking flax before it burst to flame Was quenched by death, and broken the bruised reed."
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"A sublime soul can rise to all kinds of greatness, but by an effort; it can tear itself from all bondage, to all that limits and constrains it, but only by strength of will. Consequently the sublime soul is only free by broken efforts."
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"Courage, ne'er by sorrow broken! Aid where tears of virtue flow; Faith to keep each promise spoken! Truth alike to friend and foe!"
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"My father and I were always on the most distant terms when I was a boy--a sort of armed neutrality, so to speak. At irregular intervals this neutrality was broken, and suffering ensued; but I will be candid enough to say that the breaking and the suffering were always divided up with strict impartiality between us--which is to say, my father did the breaking, and I did the suffering."
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"I've actually broken up with boyfriends for inspiration."
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