"Some people in your life Touch you so very deeply That you drown totally in that depth."
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"At the depths of that dusty soul there is nothing but abject surrender."
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"Out of the depths of sorrow and sacrifice will be born again the glory of mankind."
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"I never considered myself an artist. I aspire to be an artist, but I never thought I had the depth or substance or gift to be an artist. I do think I have some talent, but it doesn't go as far as being an artist."
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"I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music."
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"poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of the world we carry within us."
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"In the depths all becomes law."
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"Swells, Marina? we ocean, depths, Marina? we sky!"
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"At a certain depth of distress, the poor, in their stupor, groan no longer over evil, and are no longer thankful for good."
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"Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the substance of society! To be useless, that is to say, noxious! This leads straight to the lowest depth of misery."
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"In like manner the effect of every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds. The great man knew not that he was great. It took a century or two for that fact to appear. What he did, he did, he did because he must; it was the most natural thing in the world, and grew out of the circumstances of the moment."
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"Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first. It rises in thought, to the end that it may be uttered and acted. Always in proportion to the depth of its sense does it knock importunately at the gates of the soul, to be spoken, to be done."
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"A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of its projection."
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"Life is not measured by its length, but by its depth."
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"Worship is the highest act of which a person is capable. It not only stretches us beyond all the limits of our finite selves to affirm the divine depth of mystery and holiness in the living and eternal God, but it opens us at the deepest level of our being to an act which unites us most realistically with our fellow people."
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"I think it's very important to keep being frightened - if you're not frightening yourself, you should take a break. You need to keep experimenting. You also need to take time - that's how you do good stuff - layering and depth of knowledge."
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"A very sea of thought; neither calm nor clear, if you will, yet wherein the toughest pearl-diver may dive to his utmost depth, and return not only with sea-wreck but with true orients."
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"Out of the lowest depths there is a path to the loftiest heights."
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"It's a man's sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet."
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"New sentient creatures filled the unseen depths, Life's glory and swiftness ran in the beauty of beasts."
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