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"Let us go forth, the tellers of tales, and seize whatever prey the heart long for, and have no fear. Everything exists, everything is true, and the earth is only a little dust under our feet."
"Therefore I tell my sorrows to the stones; Who, though they cannot answer my distress, Yet in some sort they are better than the tribunes, For that they will not intercept my tale: When I do weep, they humbly at my feet Receive my tears and seem to weep with me; And, were they but attired in grave weeds, Rome could afford no tribune like to these."
"Ne'er ask me what raiment I'll wear, for I have no more doublets than backs, no more stockings than legs, nor no more shoes than feet--nay, sometime more feet than shoes, or such shoes as my toes look through the overleather."
"I have nothing Of woman in me; now from head to foot I am marble-constant."
"Thou shalt not stir one foot to seek a foe."
"Thou hadst, for weary feet, the gift of rest."
"Pleasures newly found are sweet When they lie about our feet."
"The light that shined upon the summit now seems almost to shine at our feet."
"Jackie Wilson said it was Reet-Petite, kind of love you got knock me off my feet."
"Tangaloor, fire-bright Flame-foot, farthest walker Your hunter speaks In need he walks In need, but never in fear."
"If I just keep putting one foot in front of the other, it stands to reason that I'm going to get there. I've begun to think we sit far more than we're supposed to." He smiled. "Why else would we have feet?"
"What are you gonna say?" Emma asked. " 'I'm not sure I want you back, but I'm sure I don't want your ex-con ex-girlfriend to have you, either'? Yeah. That'll start this little triangle off on the right foot."
"she sighs, then breaks a piece off the muffin in my hand. 'Hey. There are plenty more just five feet to your right.' 'then you shouldn't be so concerned about losing some of yours.' she says, grinning. 'Fair enough."
"I shift from one foot to the other, trying to get a good look at him. When I finally do, I look away. His eyes were already on me, probably drawn by my nervous movement."
"I am a child. I am two feet tall, and asking if she loves me."
"You are adorable, mademoiselle. I study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope."
"There is man in his entirety, blaming his shoe when his foot is guilty."
"When a man thinks happily, he finds no foot-track in the field he traverses. All spontaneous thought is irrespective of all else."
"Power is what they want, not candy-power to execute their design, power to give legs and feet, form and actuality to their thought; which, to a clear-sighted man, appears the end for which the universe exists, and all its resources might be well applied."
"A good intention clothes itself with sudden power. When a god wishes to ride, any chip or pebble will bud and shoot out winged feet, and serve him for a horse."
