"No one sees what is before his feet: they scan the tracks of heaven."
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"I am six feet tall. I am not supposed to be afraid."
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"Hurrah for revolution and more cannon-shot! A beggar upon horseback lashes a beggar on foot. Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on."
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"As soon as we lay ourselves entirely at His feet, we have enough light given us to guide our own steps; as the foot-soldier who hears nothing of the councils that determine the course of the great battle he is in, hears plainly enough the word of command that they must themselves obey."
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"Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer."
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"Better a bare foote then none."
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"To steale the Hog, and give the feet for almes. [To steal the hog, and give the feet to alms.]"
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"Always 'duty.' I am sick of the word. They are a lot of old blockheads in flannel vests and of old women with foot-warmers and rosaries who constantly drone into our ears 'Duty, duty!' Ah! by Jove! one's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and not accept all the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us."
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"I can't use logic concerning my feelings, my feelings demand musical notes, violins, guitar solos, the stomping of feet, poetic language, metaphors, poetic lines about birds or deserts or tree-crowded forests."
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"Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet."
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"Slow are the steps of freedom, but her feet turn never backward."
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"Standing, with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet!"
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"Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame."
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"You are a flower crushed beneath the feet of the animal that is concealed in a human being. Take comfort, in that you are the flower crushed and not the foot that has crushed it."
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"My father would invite me sweetly to come and sit on a stool at his feet, and, as I let myself trustingly down, he would gently kick the seat from under me - and laugh."
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"Al was standing a bare three feet away, his mood almost jovial as he took the paper and it vanished in a wash of black sparkles. “Thank you, Rachel,” he said, carefully reaching for my hand as Trent stiffened. “Welcome back, my itchy witch."
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"Thou art in the end what thou art. Put on wigs with millions of curls, set thy foot upon ell-high rocks. Thou abidest ever--what thou art."
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"He who does not stretch himself according to the coverlet finds his feet uncovered."
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"I thought that I had no time for faith nor time to pray, then I saw an armless man saying his Rosary with his feet."
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"Old sciences are unraveled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot."
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