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• Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste, And natural in gesture; much impress'd Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.

  William Cowper

  Simple, Men, Grace

  William Cowper (1851). “The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems. Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence”, p.556

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• And Thou, vast Ocean! on whole awful face Time's iron feet can print no ruin trace.

  Robert Montgomery

  Ocean, Iron, Feet

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• Iago's soliloquy - the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity - how awful it is!

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Hunting, Motive

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, 1922.

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• I have seen that Man moves over with each new generation into a bigger body, more awful, more reverent and more free than he has had before.

  Gerald Stanley Lee

  Moving, Men, Progress

  Gerald Stanley Lee (1913). “Crowds: A Moving-picture of Democracy”

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• Truly, I'm not joking when I thank my lucky stars for the awful operation I had, since it has made me young again and philosophical which means that I don't want to fritter away the new lease on life I've been given.

  Henri Matisse

  Stars, Philosophical, Mean

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• I know vegetarians don't like to hear this, but God made an awful lot of land that's good for nothing but grazing.

  Molly Ivins

  Vegetarianism, Land, Made

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• To the lack of incentive to effort, which is the awful shadow under which we live, may be traced the wreck and ruin of scores of colored youth.

  Mary Church Terrell

  Effort, Shadow, Wrecks

  What It Means to be Colored in Capital of the U.S., delivered 10 October 1906, United Women's Club, Washington, D.C.

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• A friend of mine said, 'Leukemia hasn't met Susan Butcher yet,' and I agree with her. It's going to have to fight awful hard if it wants to take me.

  Susan Butcher

  Fighting, Want, Leukemia

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• It is an awful thing to say, but if I was a Rover worker I would not be pinning my hopes on a deal by next Monday, I'd be looking for a new job.

  Jeff Randall

  Monday, Jobs, New Job

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• Leonardo's Mona Lisa sure would have lost out if he had spent only 2 of the 4 or 5 years he took to complete it. It is thinking about him and Ryder, among others, that partly makes me feel so awful to send away a 'half-baked' painting.

  E. J. Hughes

  Time, Thinking, Years

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• Of Consciousness, her awful Mate. The Soul cannot be rid - as easy the secreting her behind the Eyes of God.

  Emily Dickinson

  Eye, Soul, Consciousness

  c.1864 Complete Poems, no.894 (first published 1945).

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• The Emperor died forsaken by all, on this horrible rock. (St. Helena) His death struggle was awful!

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Struggle, Rocks, Horrible

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• There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm. There is a delight in the hardy life of the open... Apart from this, yet mingled with it, is the strong attraction of the silent places, of the large tropic moons, and the splendor of the new stars; where the wanderer sees the awful glory of sunrise and sunset in the wide waste spaces of the earth, unworn of man, and changed only by the slow change of the ages through time everlasting.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Strong, Stars, Sunset

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• War must be made as intense and awful as possible in order to make it short, and thus to diminish its horrors.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Order, Horror

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• All I know is just what I read in the Congressional Record. They have had some awful funny articles in there lately. As our government deteriorates, our humor increases.

  Will Rogers

  Government, Records, Increase

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.57, Rowman & Littlefield

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• No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life...Awful in stern, immovable majesty, how softly these rocks are adorned, and how fine and reassuring the company they keep: Their feet among beautiful groves and meadows, their brows in the sky, a thousand flowers leaning confidingly against their feet, bathed in floods of water, floods of light.

  John Muir

  Beautiful, Wall, Flower

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• It is awful hard to get people interested in corruption unless they can get some of it.

  Will Rogers

  People, Political, Corruption

  Will Rogers (1981). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Coolidge Years, 1927-1929”

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• I saw the lightnings gleaming rod.
  Reach forth and write upon the sky
  The awful autograph of God.

  Joaquin Miller

  Writing, Sky, Lightning

  "Shadows of Shasta". Book by Joaquin Miller. Epigraph, 1881.

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• I do not know the man so bold He dare in lonely Place That awful stranger Consciousness Deliberately face-.

  Emily Dickinson

  Lonely, Men, Faces

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.512, Harvard University Press

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• There is an awful lot of difference between reading something and actually seeing it, for you can never tell, till you see it, just how big a liar History is.

  Will Rogers

  Liars, Reading, Differences

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• The bankers just got a good cussing by everybody for loaning too much money. Well, they got some awful nice buildings. So when a banker fails, he fails in splendor.

  Will Rogers

  Business, Nice, Bankers

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• Bread without butter or coffee without milk is an awful calamity, as if everything before being put in our mouth must first be held under a cow.

  John Muir

  Coffee, Mouths, Cows

  John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.97, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• Enlightened teachers and people who help them, have a lot of trouble. People try to interfere with the work and spread awful rumors about you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, People, Rumor

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• I read an awful lot in college - a lot of Dickens, a lot of 19th century American stuff, a lot of old mysteries. Maybe it's helped me attain a certain fluidity with my style.

  Josh Lieb

  College, Style, Fluidity

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I'm a very binary person in a bad way where it's like everything is either totally great or totally awful.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Way, Binary, Persons

  "Feeling Myself: Kathleen Hanna Gets Back to Work". Interview with Laura Snapes, pitchfork.com. June 5, 2015.

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