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• This Englishwoman is so refined, She has no bosom and no behind.

  Stevie Smith

  Behinds, Refined

  "This Englishwoman" l. 1 (1937)

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• The music, and the banquet, and the wine-- The garlands, the rose odors, and the flowers, The sparkling eyes, and flashing ornaments-- The white arms and the raven hair--the braids, And bracelets; swan-like bosoms, and the necklace, An India in itself, yet dazzling not.

  Lord Byron

  Flower, Wine, Eye

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• I want my people to stay with me here. All the dead men will come to life again. Their spirits will come to their bodies again. We must wait here in the homes of our fathers and be ready to meet them in the bosom of our mother.

  Wovoka

  Mother, Father, Home

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• This is so rich a country that luxury has developed at the expense of necessities, and even the destitute partake of the luxury. We are the rich country of the world, like Dives at the feast. We must try hard, we must study to be poor like Lazarus at the gate, who was taken into Abraham's bosom.

  Dorothy Day

  Country, Taken, Luxury

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• Everything that is superfluous overflows from the full bosom.

  Horace

  Overflow, Superfluous

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 311-13, Ars Poetica, 337, 1922.

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• If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

  Joseph Addison

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Leadership, Forgiveness

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• We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.

  Pope Francis

  Church, Mediocrity, Nests

  Pope Francis (2014). “My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change”, p.51, A&C Black

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• Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Knowledge, Soul

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.88

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• I had to stop traveling alone because I missed so many planes. When somebody runs up to you in the airport and begins to tell you their life story, you can't say, 'Excuse me, boo,' as they're weeping on your bosom.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Running, Airports, Up To You

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• No murmur arose from its bed, and so gently it wandered along, that the pearly pebbles upon which we loved to gaze, far down within its bosom, stirred not at all, but lay in a motionless content, each in its own old station, shining on gloriously forever.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Shining, Forever, Bed

  Edgar Allan Poe (2016). “Tales and Poems”, p.126, Pan Macmillan

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• No matter where; of comfort no man speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth

  William Shakespeare

  Writing, Eye, Men

  'Richard II' (1595) act 3, sc. 2, l. 144

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• The great thing in prayer is to feel that we are putting our supplications into the bosom of omnipotent love.

  Andrew Murray

  Prayer, Great Things, Supplication

  Andrew Murray (1997). “God's Power for Today”, p.70, Whitaker House

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• At the times in my life when I was feeling the most gregarious and looking for bosom friendships, I couldn't find any takers, so that exactly when I was alone was when I felt the most like not being alone... I became a loner in my own mind... I decided I'd rather be alone.

  Andy Warhol

  Feelings, Mind, Loner

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.36, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There they lay, but not in the forgetfulness of the previous night. She was seeking and he was seeking, they raged and contorted their faces and bored their heads into each others bosom in the urgency of seeking something, and their embraces and their tossing limbs did not avail to make them forget, but only reminded them of what they sought

  Franz Kafka

  Night, Bored, Faces

  Franz Kafka (1954). “The castle”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• Macbeth: How does your patient, doctor? Doctor: Not so sick, my lord, as she is troubled with thick-coming fancies that keep her from rest. Macbeth: Cure her of that! Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with some sweet oblivious antidote cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff which weighs upon her heart. Doctor: Therein the patient must minister to himself.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Memories, Heart

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Four Tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth”, p.892, Bantam Classics

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• I mind how once we lay such a transparent summer morning, How you settled your head athwart my hips and gently turn'd over upon me, And parted the shirt from my bosom-bone, and plunged your tongue to my bare-stript heart, And reach'd till you felt my beard, and reach'd till you held my feet.

  Walt Whitman

  Summer, Morning, Heart

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.6, NYU Press

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• ...to return to their 'native soil,' as they say, to the bosom, so to speak, of their mother earth, like frightened children, yearning to fall asleep on the withered bosom of their decrepit mother, and to sleep there for ever, only to escape the horrors that terrify them.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Mother, Fear, Children

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.1064, First Avenue Editions

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• Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York; And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Ocean, Winter

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.98, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• That’s what she was, Joanna felt suddenly. That’s what they all were, all the Stepford wives: actresses in commercials, pleased with detergents and floor wax, with cleansers, shampoos, and deodorants. Pretty actresses, big in the bosom but small in the talent, playing housewives unconvincingly, too nicey-nice to be real.

  Ira Levin

  Real, Nice, Wife

  Ira Levin (1972). “The Stepford Wives: A Novel”, Random House Incorporated

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• Ah, monsieur, to live in the bosom of the sea! Only there can independence be found! There I recognize no master! There I am free!

  Jules Verne

  Sea, Independence, Masters

  Jules Verne (1987). “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: 2”, Signet Classics

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• So we fall asleep in Jesus. We have played long enough at the games of life, and at last we feel the approach of death. We are tired out, and we lay our heads back on the bosom of Christ, and quietly fall asleep.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Death, Jesus, Fall

  Henry Ward Beecher (1872). “One Thousand Gems”, p.202

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• It is sad
  To see the light of beauty wane away,
  Know eyes are dimming, bosoms shrivelling, feet
  Losing their springs, and limbs their lily roundness;
  But it is worse to feel the heart-spring gone,
  To lose hope, care not for the coming thing,
  And feel all things go to decay within us.

  Philip James Bailey

  Spring, Heart, Eye

  Philip James Bailey, “Festus - XXIII”

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• I have somewhere read that conscience not only sits as witness and judge within our bosoms, but also forms the prison of punishment.

  Hosea Ballou

  Punishment, Judging, Prison

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• Virtue, without the graces, is like a rich diamond unpolished--it hardly looks better than a common pebble; but when the hand of the master rubs off the roughness, and forms the sides into a thousand brilliant surfaces, it is then that we acknowledge its worth, admire its beauty, and long to wear it in our bosoms.

  Jane Porter

  Hands, Long, Grace

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.104

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