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• Be that blind bard who on the Chian strand, By those deep sounds possessed with inward light, Beheld the Iliad and the Odyssey Rise to the swelling of the voiceful sea.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Light, Sea, Sound

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley (1829). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats. Complete in One Volume”, p.217

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• A revolution is not the overturning of a cart, a reshuffling in the cards of state. It is a process, a swelling, a new growth in the race. If it is real, not simply a trauma, it is another ring in the tree of history, layer upon layer of invisible tissue composing the evidence of a circle.

  Kate Millett

  Change, Real, Circles

  Kate Millett (2000). “Flying”, p.360, University of Illinois Press

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• Ambition, like a torrent, ne'er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature's self.

  Ben Jonson

  Ambition, Self, Law

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1816). “The Works of Ben Jonson...: With Notes Critical and Explanatory, and a Biographical Memoir”, p.258

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• Emotions. Swelling waves that we are so often powerless to navigate. Is there some meaning to them? Of course, you just have to learn how to properly manage them.

  Ruben Papian

  Emotion, Wave, Courses

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• Swelling in anger or sparkling in glee.

  Bayard Taylor

  Ocean, Glee, Sparkling

  BAYARD TAYLOR (1855). “POEMS OF HOME AND TRAVEL.”, p.123

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• The moon is looking down into the canyon, and how marvelously the great rocks kindle to her light! Every dome, and brow, and swelling boss touched by her white rays, glows as if lighted with snow.

  John Muir

  Moon, Light, Rocks

  John Muir (2015). “STEEP TRAILS: California - Utah - Nevada - Washington - Oregon - The Grand Canyon: Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Essays and Wilderness Studies from the author of The Yosemite, Our National Parks, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf & Picturesque California”, p.15, e-artnow

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• The gloomy recess of an ecclesiastical library is like a harbor, into which a far-traveling curiosity has sailed with its freight, and cast anchor. The ponderous tomes are bales of the mind's merchandise. Odors of distant countries and times steal from the red leaves, the swelling ridges of vellum, and the titles in tarnished gold.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Country, Anchors, Curiosity

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• After my first week of no wheat, my stomachaches were gone, my mucous cleared up, and I felt incredibly energetic. My headaches were also less frequent and less severe, and I had lost 3 pounds, most of it swelling and water weight my body had been holding onto as part of its response to the wheat products in my diet.

  Daphne Oz

  Water, Gone, Weight

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• I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn't find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest substance - You, O God - towards inferior things, rejecting its own inner life and swelling with external matters.

  Saint Augustine

  Substance, Wickedness, Matter

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• Financial institutions have been merging into a smaller number of very large banks. Almost all banks are interrelated. So the financial ecology is swelling into gigantic, incestuous, bureaucratic banks-when one fails, they all fall. We have moved from a diversified ecology of small banks, with varied lending policies, to a more homogeneous framework of firms that all resemble one another. True, we now have fewer failures, but when they occur... I shiver at the thought.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Fall, Numbers, Financial

  "The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable". Book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 2007.

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• Anyway, I'm digressing, but this is just kind of this 10-and-a-half-minute, ambient - you hear cicadas and birds and the wind outside and crickets as I'm swelling the piece. I could never do that on a pop record. I could, but why would I want to be agitating?

  Andrew Bird

  Wind, Bird, Pieces

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, music.avclub.com. January 20, 2009.

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• Let firm, well hammer'd soles protect thy feet Through freezing snows, and rains, and soaking sleet; Should the big last extend the shoe too wide, Each stone will wrench the unwary step aside; The sudden turn may stretch the swelling vein, The cracking joint unhinge, or ankle sprain; And when too short the modish shoes are worn, You'll judge the seasons by your shooting corn.

  John Gay

  Rain, Shoes, Feet

  John Gay, Vinton Adams Dearing (1975). “Poetry and prose of John Gay”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce.

  Francis Bacon

  Real, Passion, Heart

  Francis Bacon, Samuel Weller SINGER (1868). “Essays or Counsels civil and moral”, p.94

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• Go! dive into the Southern Sea, and when
  Th'ast found, to trouble the nice sight of men,
  A swelling pearl, and such whose single worth
  Boasts all the wonders which the seas bring forth,
  Give it Endymion's love, whose ev'ry tear
  Would more enrich the skilful jeweller.

  William Davenant

  Nice, Men, Sight

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• One may decide that the nipple most nearly resembles a newly ripened raspberry (never, be it noted, the plonk of water on a pond at the commencement of a drizzle, a simple bladder nozzle built on the suction principal gum bubble, mole, or birth ward, bumpy metal button, or the painful red eruption of a swelling), but does one care to see his breakfast fruit as a sweetened milky bowl of snipped nips? no.

  William H. Gass

  Simple, Water, Eruption

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• There's not swelling music and emotional scenes in life, and there's not long pauses when you tell a joke for everybody to laugh. That's not how it goes. Life just sort of happens to you.

  John Krasinski

  Emotional, Long, Laughing

  "How John Krasinski's Own Family Stories Made His New Film More Personal For Him". Interview with Shannon Vestal Robson, www.popsugar.com. August 28, 2016.

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• Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests.

  Robertson Davies

  People, Dollars, Majority

  Robertson Davies (1992). “The Cornish Trilogy”, Penguin Group USA

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• ... the modern drama, operating through the double channel of dramatist and interpreter, affecting as it does both mind and heart,is the strongest force in developing social discontent, swelling the powerful tide of unrest that sweeps onward and over the dam of ignorance, prejudice, and superstition.

  Emma Goldman

  Powerful, Drama, Heart

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.151, 谷月社

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• The legislator is like the navigator of a ship on the high seas. He can steer the vessel on which he sails, but he cannot alter its construction, raise the wind, or stop the waves from swelling beneath his feet.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Wind, Sea, Feet

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• I'm not fat. It's just my awesomeness swelling up inside of me.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Awesomeness, Fats

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• I love lots of different types of music, but it's music that has this up-swelling of beauty and emotion that is most important to me.

  Moby

  Important, Different, Emotion

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• Wisdom and virtue are by no means sufficient, without the supplemental laws of good-breeding, to secure freedom from degenerating into rudeness, or self esteem from swelling into insolence. A thousand incivilities may be committed, and a thousand offices neglected. without any remorse of conscience, or reproach from reason.

  Samuel Johnson

  Self Esteem, Mean, Law

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay”, p.459

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• A man that loves to be peevish and paramount, and to play the sovereign at every turn, does but blast the blessings of life, and swagger away his own enjoyments; and not to enlarge upon not folly, not to mention the injustice of such a behavior, it is always the sign of a little, unbenevolent temper. It is disease and discredit all over, and there is no more greatness in it, than in the swelling of a dropsy.

  Jeremy Collier

  Blessing, Greatness, Men

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• Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .

  Ben Jonson

  Use, Ill

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• After four knee surgeries and hundreds of shots injected into my knee weekly to alleviate swelling and pain, my body is begging me to stop the pounding.

  Li Na

  Pain, Body, Four

  "Li Na, China's double grand slam winner, forced to retire with knee injury", www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2014.

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