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• We fitted together like the two halves of an oyster-shell. I was Narcissus, embracing the pond in which I was about to drown. However much we had to hide our love, however guarded we had to be about our pleasure, I could not long be miserable about a thing so very sweet. Nor, in my gladness, could I quite believe that anybody would be anything but happy for me if only they knew.

  Sarah Waters

  Sweet, Believe, Oysters

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• Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Inspirational, Insperational, Cracks

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• Ask of Her, the mighty Mother.
  Her reply puts this other
  Question: What is Spring?-
  Growth in every thing -
  
  Flesh and fleece, fur and feather,
  Grass and green world all together,
  Star-eyed strawberry breasted
  Throstle above Her nested
  
  Cluster of bugle blue eggs thin
  Forms and warms the life within,
  And bird and blossom swell
  In sod or sheath or shell.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Mother, Stars, Spring

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (2013). “Selected Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins”, p.32, Courier Corporation

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• For there is a great difference in delivery of the mathematics , which are the most abstracted of knowledges, and policy , which is the most immersed. And howsoever contention hath been moved , touching a uniformity of method in multiformity of matter, yet we see how that opinion, besides the weakness of it, hath been of ill desert towards learning, as that which taketh the way to reduce learning to certain empty and barren generalities; being but the very husks and shells of sciences, all the kernel being forced out and expulsed with the torture and press of the method.

  Francis Bacon

  Learning, Knowledge, Science

  "Collected Works of Francis Bacon".

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• Socrates said, our only knowledge was
  "To know that nothing could be known;" a pleasant
  Science enough, which levels to an ass
  Each Man of Wisdom, future, past, or present.
  Newton, (that Proverb of the Mind,) alas!
  Declared, with all his grand discoveries recent,
  That he himself felt only "like a youth
  Picking up shells by the great Ocean-Truth."

  Lord Byron

  Ocean, Past, Men

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2079, Delphi Classics

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• A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle only to find that the creature has long been dead, deems it expedient to form a new attachment to a fresh turtle.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Turtles, Attachment, Long

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.572, Library of America

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• Spiritual seeking means knowing this negative part: that desiring is the root cause of frustration. To desire is to create, of one`s own accord, a shell. Desiring is the world. To be worldly is to desire and to go on desiring, never becoming aware that each desire comes to nothing but frustration. Once you become aware of this, then you do not desire, or your only desire is to know what is.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Mean, Frustration

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• Natural death is independent of all reason and is really an irrational death, in which the pitiable substance of the shell determines how long the kernel is to exist or not; in which, accordingly, the stunted, diseased and dull witted jailer is lord, and indicates the moment at which his distinguished prisoner shall die.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Independent, Long, Substance

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.422, Courier Corporation

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• I roamed the countryside searching for the answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains along with the imprints of coral and plant and seaweed usually found in the sea. Why the thunder lasts a longer time than that which causes it and why immediately on its creation the lightening becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Creativity, Eye, Air

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• It's the old shell game.

  Dan Rather

  Games, Religion

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• The Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Greek, Latin, and Mathematics, it had quite left these shells high on the beach, and was creating and feeding other matters [science] at other ends of the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beach, Latin, Science

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• Science affects the average man and woman in two ways already. He or she benefits by its application driving a motor-car or omnibus instead of a horse-drawn vehicle, being treated for disease by a doctor or surgeon rather than a witch, and being killed with an automatic pistol or shell in place of a dagger or a battle-axe.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Horse, Science, Men

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• It is better to have a few forms well known than to teach a little about many hundred species. Better a dozen specimens thoroughly studied as the result of the first year's work, than to have two thousand dollars' worth of shells and corals bought from a curiosity-shop. The dozen animals would be your own.

  Louis Agassiz

  Teaching, Knowledge, Science

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• O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain.

  Mark Twain

  Pain, Gun, Soldier

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.502, Courier Corporation

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• Some of the shells brought my heart into my mouth; lying there waiting for them was intolerable. I was sure I was going to be blown to pieces.

  Hervey Allen

  Memorial Day, Lying, Heart

  Hervey Allen (1968). “Toward the Flame: A War Diary”, [Pittsburgh] : University of Pittsburgh Press

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• Of what use are the great number of petrifactions, of different species, shape and form which are dug up by naturalists? Perhaps the collection of such specimens is sheer vanity and inquisitiveness. I do not presume to say; but we find in our mountains the rarest animals, shells, mussels, and corals embalmed in stone, as it were, living specimens of which are now being sought in vain throughout Europe. These stones alone whisper in the midst of general silence.

  Carl Linnaeus

  Science, Animal, Vanity

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• [My kitten] is dressed in a tortoise-shell suit, and I know you will delight in her.

  William Cowper

  Cat, Delight, Suits

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• After 13 years of life on the half shell in Hollywood, I have made a trip where I wasn't a tourist.

  Edgar Bergen

  Travel, Years, Tourism

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• Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays.... The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into peach blossoms.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Beautiful, Uplifting, Memorial Day

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1903). “Ponkapog Papers”

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• There is some kiss we want with your whole lives, the touch of spirit on the body. Seawater begs the pearl to break its shell. And the lily, how passionately it needs some wild darling.

  Rumi

  Love, Religious, Kissing

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• To no man does the earth mean so much as to the soldier. When he presses himself down upon her long and powerfully, when he buries his face and his limbs deep in her from the fear of death by shell-fire, then she is his only friend, his brother, his mother; he stifles his terror and his cries in her silence and her security; she shelters him and releases him for ten seconds to live, to run, ten seconds of life; receives him again and again and often forever.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Mother, Running, Brother

  Erich Maria Remarque (2013). “All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel”, p.43, Random House

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• There are patterns in everything, in the whole of Nature, from the way the stars turn in the heavens to the whorl of a shell or the petals of a flower and the way leaves arrange themselves about a twig. There are forces, hidden forces. If I can discover what they are, how they operate, I will have my hands upon the levers of creation and can work them myself.

  Celia Rees

  Stars, Flower, Hands

  Celia Rees (2011). “The Fool's Girl”, p.78, A&C Black

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• Is there some lesson on how to be friends? I think what it means is that central to living a life that is good is a life that's forgiving. We're creatures of contact regardless of whether we kiss or we wound. Still, we must come together. Though it may spell destruction, we still ask for more-- since it beats staying dry but so lonely on shore. So we make ourselves open while knowing full well it's essentially saying "please, come pierce my shell.

  David Rakoff

  Lonely, Mean, Kissing

  FaceBook post by David Rakoff from Nov 09, 2015

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• Conservatism is not about the party, because the party is merely the shell. It is the inside - it's the filling that really means something.

  Jonathan Krohn

  Party, Mean, Filling

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• I think with acting, since I became an actor... I, as a person, have become more confident and I have really come out of my shell somewhat... and back to myself, you know.

  Charlie Bewley

  Thinking, Acting, Actors

  "Skewed and Reviewed Talks with "New Moon" Volturi". sknr.net. November 12, 2009.

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