"With little wit and ease to suit them, They whirl in narrow circling trails, Like kittens playing with their tails."
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"Only the heart without a stain knows perfect ease. [Ger., Ganz unbefleckt geniesst sich nur das Herz.]"
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"In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us."
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"A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice."
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"Dry your eyes O dry your eyes, For I was taught in Paradise To ease my breast of melodies."
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"Language does for intelligence what the wheel does for the feet and the body. It enables them to move from thing to thing with greater ease and speed and ever less involvement."
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"I enter into discussion and argument with great freedom and ease, inasmuch as opinion finds me in a bad soil to penetrate and take deep root in. No propositions astonish me, no belief offends me, whatever contrast it offers to my own. There is no fancy so frivolous and so extravagant that it does not seem to me quite suitable to the production of the human mind."
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"My wealth is health and perfect ease; My conscience clear my chief defence; I neither seek by bribes to please, Nor by deceit to breed offence. Thus do I live; thus will I die. Would all did so well as I!"
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"I'm not at ease with the word "love.""
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"There is an emanation from the heart in genuine hospitality which cannot be described, but is immediately felt and puts the stranger at once at his ease."
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"In this world with starry dome,Floored with gemlike plains and seas,Shall I never feel at home,Never wholly be at ease?"
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"I battered the cordons around me And cradled my wings on the breeze, Then soared to the uttermost reaches With rapture, with power, with ease!"
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"Wisdom is not found with those who dwell at their ease; rather nature, when she adds brain, adds difficulty."
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"Thinke of ease, but worke on."
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"Either you are so underdeveloped that you can't see all that you can do, or you won't sacrifice your ease, your vanity, or whatever it is, to do it."
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"The apparent ease of California life is an illusion, and those who believe the illusion will live here in only the most temporary way."
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"I don't want ever to be a president who is comfortable and at ease with killing people."
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"What most we wish, with ease we fancy near."
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"There are some things which men confess with ease, and others with difficulty."
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"As in no other form of lute or combat, the conditions are such; the winner takes nothing, neither his ease, nor his pleasure, nor any notion of glory, nor if he wins far enough, will he find anything within himself."
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