"That is the way to lay the city flat, To bring the roof to the foundation, And bury all, which yet distinctly ranges, In heaps and piles of ruin."
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"Commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways."
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"To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on."
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"So, you are very welcome to our house. It must appear in other ways than words, Therefore, I scant this breathing courtesy."
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"I look for ghosts; but none will force Their way to me. 'Tis falsely said That there was ever intercourse Between the living and the dead."
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"Don't deliver an essay with so many points. No one can absorb it. Just say one thing... Of course, you can say the point in many different ways over and over again with different illustrations."
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"A man must choose his own way of life, and…it is only by following out one’s own bent that there can be the really harmonious life.” [In an interview conducted by Bram Stoker]"
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"Small disconnected facts, if you take note of them, have a way of becoming connected."
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"And then, when there is nothing else between us but love, we can begin to find a way to truly be together."
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"God Almighty would in no way permit evil in His works were He not so omnipotent and good that even out of evil He could work good."
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"Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind."
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"I've always felt music is the only way to give an instantaneous moment the feel of slow motion. To romanticise it and glorify it and give it a soundtrack and a rhythm."
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"Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since."
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"Men in all ways are better than they seem."
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"Ultimately, Monsieur, we must go to God per infamiam et bonam famam [whether spoken of well or ill], and His Divine Goodness is merciful to us when it pleases Him to allow us to encounter blame and public contempt. I am sure you have borne patiently the embarrassment you experienced because of what has happened. If the glory of the world is nothing but smoke, the contrary is a solid good, when it is accepted in the right way. I hope that great good will come to us from this humiliation."
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"What history is, essentially, is a careening, out-of-control effort to find our way back to this state of primordial balance."
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"To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events."
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"I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married"
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"Still, life had a way of adding day to day"
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