"I wept not — so to stone I grew within."
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"And when it has got in; as one not finding what it seeks, whatever that may be, it wails and howls to issue forth again: and not content with stalking through the aisles, and gliding round and round the pillars, and tempting the deep organ, soars up to the roof, and strives to rend the rafters: then flings itself despairingly upon the stones below, and passes, muttering, into the vaults."
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"The Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are definite as stone."
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"Too much success is not an advantage. Do not tinkle like jade Or clatter like stone chimes."
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"The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s heart to stone."
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""Gutta cavat lapidem." (Dripping water carves a stone.)"
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"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set."
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"When one is five-and-twenty, one has not chalk-stones at one's finger-ends that the touch of a handsome girl should be entirely indifferent."
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"That's what prison did for me, it isolated me, you know, it polished me up like a stone."
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"I went on the pill when I was 16, put on four stone... so that proved to be a very effective contraceptive."
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"Lucy looked and saw that Aslan had just breathed on the feet of the stone giant. It's all right!" shouted Aslan joyously. "Once The feet are put right, all the rest of him will follow."
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"When the coherence of the parts of a stone, or even that composition of parts which renders it extended; when these familiar objects, I say, are so inexplicable, and contain circumstances so repugnant and contradictory; with what assurance can we decide concerning the origin of worlds, or trace their history from eternity to eternity?"
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"Every experience of love, bliss, belonging, inspiration, and insight provides a stepping stone back to your true self."
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""Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age" was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed OUT of the Stone Age."
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"The entrée wasn't tender enough to be a paving stone and the gravy couldn't have been primordial soup because morphogenesis was already taking place."
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"Each possession I own is but a stone around my neck."
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"Perhaps creativity is fumbling that dance step, or driving the chisel the wrong way into the stone."
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"Failure is a stepping stone to success."
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"Fame, that public destruction of one in process of becoming, into whose building-ground the mob breaks, displacing his stones."
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"She might have melted a heart of stone, but nothing can melt a heart of wood."
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