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• My head is bursting with the joy of the unknown. My heart is expanding a thousand fold.

  Rumi

  Heart, Joy, Bursting

  "Hush Don't Say Anything to God". Book by Rumi, translated by Shahram Shiva, 1999.

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• …for no matter how lost and soiled and worn-out wandering sons may be, mothers can forgive and forget every thing as they fold them into their fostering arms. Happy the son whose faith in his mother remains unchanged, and who, through all his wanderings, has kept some filial token to repay her brave and tender love.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Mother, Son, Forgive And Forget

  Louisa May Alcott (2015). “Louisa May Alcott Premium Edition - 16 Novels in One Volume: Little Women Trilogy & Other Novels (Illustrated): Moods, The Mysterious Key and What It Opened, An Old Fashioned Girl, Work, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Under the Lilacs, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, The Abbot's Ghost, A Modern Mephistopheles…”, p.998, e-artnow

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• Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Reality, Men, Hands

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• I seem to have gathered up a stray lamb in my arms: you wandered out of the fold to seek your shepherd, did you, Jane?

  Charlotte Bronte

  Shepherds, Lambs, Arms

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.227, Penguin

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• Alas, I have grieved so I am hard to love. Yet love me--wilt thou? Open thine heart wide, And fold within, the wet wings of thy dove.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Heart, Wings, Dove

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.149

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• Our life is two fold Sleep hath its own world, A boundary between the things misnamed Death and existence Sleep hath its own world, And a wide realm of wild reality.

  Lord Byron

  Sleep, Reality, Two

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.502, Delphi Classics

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• Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

  George Eliot

  Relationship, Jealousy, Heart

  George Eliot (2016). “The Mill on the Floss: Top Novelist Focus”, p.394, 谷月社

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• But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Friendship, Sweet, Real Friends

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Poems 2”, p.147, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Affliction comes to us all ...not to impoverish, but to enrich us, as the plough enriches the field; to multiply our joy, as the seed, by planting, is multiplied a thousand-fold.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Gratitude, Joy, Affliction

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• In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn; color your hair; watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist; you can fold laundry for a family of five. In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world; or you can just jump off it.

  Jodi Picoult

  Hockey, Hair, Color

  "Nineteen Minutes". Book by Jodi Picoult, March 6, 2007.

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• ...Something we once loved, and love now, in the shape of a book. Maybe eBooks are going to take over, one day, but not until those whizzkids in Silicon Valley invent a way to bend the corners, fold the spine, yellow the pages, add a coffee ring or two and allow the plastic tablet to fall open at a favorite page.

  Russell T Davies

  Coffee, Book, Fall

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• The world...is full of resurrections... Every night that folds us up in darkness is a death; and those of you that have been out early, and have seen the first of the dawn, will know it - the day rises out of the night like a being that has burst its tomb and escaped into life.

  George MacDonald

  Night, Darkness, Dawn

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• Instead of just looking back, whiplash-style, I can assume there's something else coming. Time just folds over itself, like origami.

  Feist

  Style, Origami, Assuming

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. September 28, 2011.

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• Night gangsters! For this crime I will exact a thousand fold revenge!

  Adolf Hitler

  Revenge, Military, Night

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• There's a creativity, a power, an energy, an ability to do things unlike any other period in history. It's a little bit like sitting in the Renaissance, but multiplied a thousand-fold.

  Juan Enriquez

  Creativity, Energy, Sitting

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Staunch & faithful little lovers that they are, they give back a hundred fold every sign of love one ever gives them — & it mitigates the pang of losing them to know how very happy a little affection has made them .

  Edith Wharton

  Giving, Faithful, Lovers

  "The letters of Edith Wharton".

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• No voice comes from outer space, from the folds of dust and carpets of wind to tell us that this is the way it was meant to happen, that if only we knew how long the ruins would last we would never complain.

  Mark Strand

  Space, Dust, Wind

  Mark Strand (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.334, Knopf

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• Theologians will protest that the story of Abraham sacrificing Issac should not be taken as literal fact. And the appropriate response is twofold: first, many, many people even to this day, do take the whole of their Scripture to be literal fact, and they have a great deal of political power over the rest of us, especially in the United States and in the Islamic world. Second, if not of literal fact, how should we take the story? As an alagory? Then an alagory for what? Surely, nothing praiseworthy. As a moral lesson? But what kind of morals could one derive from this appalling story?

  Richard Dawkins

  Islamic, Taken, Sacrifice

  "Richard Dawkins and God". "Background Briefing" with Kirsten Garrett on ABC Radio National, www.abc.net.au. November 26, 2006.

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• Go back, go back to sleep. Yes, you are allowed. You who have no Love in your heart, you can go back to sleep. The power of Love is exclusive to us, you can go back to sleep. I have been burnt by the fire of Love. You who have no such yearning in your heart, go back to sleep. The path of Love, has seventy-two folds and countless facets. Your love and religion is all about deceit, control and hypocrisy, go back to sleep. I have torn to pieces my robe of speech, and have let go of the desire to converse. You who are not naked yet, you can go back to sleep.

  Rumi

  Letting Go, Love You, Heart

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• Let me remind you that you have a two-fold task to perform. With the force of arms and at the cost of your blood you will have to win liberty. Then, when India is free, you will have to organize the permanent army of Free India, whose task it will be to preserve our liberty for all time. We must build up our national defense on such an unshakable foundation that never again in our history shall we lose our freedom.

  Subhas Chandra Bose

  Army, Winning, Blood

  Subhas Chandra Bose (2007). “Chalo Delhi: writings and speeches, 1943-1945”

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• I love hearing stories about, you know, people who are overcoming challenges in their life. And when you experience hardships, you can either fold or rally, and just by a paradigm shift in your belief system.

  Brooke Burns

  People, Challenges, Hardship

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• The romance of circumvention is one of the most destructive forces at work in our society. The American Idol freeway to greatness, Instagramming one's way into popular consciousness with selfies of our ass folds beneath short shorts, human growth hormone and performance-enhancing drugs for athletes, Adderall for the idle mind, reality television that sacrifices our dignity for fifteen lousy minutes.

  Daniel Gillies

  Athlete, Sacrifice, Reality

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• I learned a lot about what I do with my craft, how I present my music. A lot of things about him were very much an influence on me and everybody else. Once you get in that fold and you're around it, you get to experience something that I don't think we'll ever see again. There will never be anybody like Frank Sinatra. Ever.

  Paul Anka

  Thinking, Crafts, Influence

  "Singer-songwriter Paul Anka". "Tavis Smiley Show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. April 16, 2013.

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• We must always work, and a self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood. If we wait for the mood, without endeavoring to meet it halfway, we easily become indirect and apathetic.

  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

  Artist, Self, Hands

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• No one can explain how the notes of a Mozart melody, or the folds of a piece of Titian's drapery, produce their essential effects. If you do not feel it, no one can by reasoning make you feel it.

  John Ruskin

  Pieces, Essentials, Produce

  John Ruskin (1860). “Modern Painters ...: pt. 6. Of leaf beauty. pt. 7. Of cloud beauty. pt. 8-9. Of ideas of relation”, p.169

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