Emily Dickinson
Poet
"Bring me the sunset in a cup."
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Mae West
Actress, Singer, Screenwriter
"If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning."
Omar Khayyam
Poet, Mathematician, Astronomer
"Awake, my Little ones, and fill the Cup Before Life's Liquor in its Cup be dry."
Lord Byron
Poet, Novelist
"And life 's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim."
C. S. Lewis
Writer, Scholar
"In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not."
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"The Dutch change positions quicker than you can make a cup of coffee."
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"The usefulness of the cup is its emptiness."
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"Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don't look for anything else."
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"Nobody can have your psychedelic experience for you; you just have to screw your courage up and raise the cup to your lips or smoke the pipe or whatever it is and face what's in there."
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"The cup has to be left clean and empty for the divine liquor to be poured into it."
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"You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup."
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"And do not suppose that this is the end. This is only the beginning of the reckoning. This is only the first sip, the first foretaste of a bitter cup which will be proffered to us year by year unless by a supreme recovery of moral health and martial vigour, we arise again and take our stand for freedom as in the olden time."
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"There's many a slip between the cup and the lip."
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"What goes best with a cup of coffee? Another cup."
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"A cup of tea would restore my normality."
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"As you forget self in service to others, you will find that, without seeking it, your own cup of happiness will be full."
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"If you approach the ocean with a cup, you can only take away a cupful; if you approach it with a bucket you can take away a bucketful."
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"If at first you don't succeed, have a cup of tea."
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"Revolution is always based on land. Revolution is never based on begging somebody for an integrated cup of coffee."
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"You can't dump one cup of sugar into the ocean and expect to get syrup. If everybody sweetened her own cup of water, then things would begin to change."
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"I recall my fleeting instants in Savannah as the taste of a cup charged to the brim."
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"Stay keeping my cup full so I'm extra charged like a state tax."
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"It is hard to carry a full cup without spilling, and a full estate without sinning."
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"A cup of tea is a cup of peace."
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"Coffee is like a bra. 3 cups is one too many."
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