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• It appears that even the different parts of the same person do not converse among themselves, do not succeed in learning from each other what are their desires and their intentions.

  Rebecca West

  Desire, Different, Succeed

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• I wear anything I feel like. If I want to put on a pair of Converse with a pencil stuck through them, I will.

  Willow Smith

  Want, Pairs, Stuck

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think it is not very difficult to discern by the duties and converses of Christians, what frames their spirits are under. Take a Christian in a good frame, and how serious, heavenly, and profitable, will his converses and duties be! what a lovely companion is he during the continuance of it!

  John Flavel

  Christian, Thinking, Lovely

  John Flavel (1799). “Whole Works of the Rev. Mr. John Flavel”, p.433

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• Solitary converse with nature; for thence are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries. Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, and October woods!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Summer, Sweet, Nature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2657, Delphi Classics

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• While we converse with her, we mark
  No want of day, nor think it dark.

  Edmund Waller

  Dark, Thinking, Want

  Edmund Waller, Elijah Fenton (1772). “The Works of Edmund Waller, Esq. in verse and prose. Published by Mr. Fenton. (Observations on some of Mr. Waller's poems.) L.P.”, p.83

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• The talent of turning men into ridicule, and exposing to laughter those one converses with, is the qualification of little ungenerous tempers.

  Joseph Addison

  Laughter, Men, Littles

  Joseph Addison (1856). “The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd”, p.147

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• It gives me great pleasure to converse with the aged. They have been over the road that all of us must travel, and know where it is rough and difficult and where it is level and easy.

  Plato

  Inspirational, Giving, Levels

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• I'm a smart enough person to know that I don't want everyone to be cookie-cutter versions of the nine guys who wear Converse sneakers.

  Mindy Kaling

  Smart, Sneakers, Guy

  Interview with Kathryn Borel, www.believermag.com.

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• Some languages are musical in themselves, so that it is pleasant to hear any one read or converse in them, even though we do not understand a word that we hear.... Others are full of growling, snarling, hissing sounds, as though wild beasts and serpents had first taught the people to speak.

  Horace Mann

  People, Musical, Firsts

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.54

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• The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The first deals in poetry, the last in cant. He is as much a visionary on one side, as the extreme theoretical democrat is a visionary on the other.

  James F. Cooper

  Principles, Visionaries, Way

  "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James F. Cooper, 1838.

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• Nothing humbles and breaks the heart of a sinner like mercy and love. Souls that converse much with sin and wrath, may be much terrified; but souls that converse much with grace and mercy, will be much humbled.

  Thomas Brooks

  Heart, Grace And Mercy, Wrath

  Thomas Brooks (1866). “The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks. Ed”, p.36

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• The disciples were not losing time when they sat beside their Master, and held quiet converse with Him under the olives of Bethany or by the shores of Galilee. Those were their school-hours; those were their feeding times.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  School, Olives, Losing

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 376, 1895.

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• Trust me, it takes talent to converse with a cat

  Jacquelyn Frank

  Cat, Talent, Trust Me

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• Spend in pure converse our eternal day;
  Think each in each, immediately wise;
  Learn all we lacked before; hear, know, and say
  What this tumultuous body now denies;
  And feel, who have laid our groping hands away;
  And see, no longer blinded by our eyes.

  Rupert Brooke

  Wise, Eye, Thinking

  Rupert Brooke (2010). “Collected Poems”, p.114, The Oleander Press

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• Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them.

  Alexander Pope

  Knaves, Next

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). “A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published”, p.129

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• I drop in from the sky disturbing the silence only momentarily, then leaving the ancient land once more to converse with the sky. It's my home and all I need.

  Toni Onley

  Travel, Home, Land

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• Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, or contributing as much as possible to the ease and happiness of those with whom you converse.

  Henry Fielding

  Art, Attitude, Dresses

  Henry Fielding, Arthur Murphy (1816). “The Works of Henry Fielding, Esq: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.196

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• We twain have met like the ships upon the sea, Who behold an hour's converse, so short, so sweet: One little hour! and then, away they speed On lonely paths, through mist, and cloud, and foam, To meet no more.

  Alexander Smith

  Lonely, Sweet, Clouds

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• Living authors, therefore, are usually, bad companions. If they have not gained character, they seek to do so by methods often ridiculous, always disgusting; and if they have established a character, they are silent for fear of losing by their tongue what they have acquired by their pen--for many authors converse much more foolishly than Goldsmith, who have never written half so well.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Character, Half, Tongue

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.158

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• Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if envious of our pleasure, fly away: enjoy, therefore, the present time, and trust not too much to what to-morrow may produce.

  Horace

  May, Too Much, Fly Away

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• I knew the stars, the flowers, and the birds, The gray and wintry sides of many glens, And did but half remember human words, In converse with the mountains, moors, and fens.

  John Millington Synge

  Stars, Flower, Bird

  John Millington Synge (2014). “Synge: Complete Plays: In the Shadow of the Glen; Riders to the Sea; The Tinker's Wedding; The Well of the Saints; The Playboy of the Western World; Deirdre of the Sorrows”, p.31, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The discreet man finds out the talents of those he converses with, and knows how to apply them to proper uses. Accordingly, if we look into particular communities and divisions of men, we may observe that it is the discreet man, not the witty, nor the learned, nor the brave, who guides the conversation, and gives measures to the society.

  Joseph Addison

  Witty, Men, Giving

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.130

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• We live in a small world. Not a leaf falls that doesn't affect a myriad of things. When we reach out to someone in love and the effect is made - everyone, everything which comes in contact with the person we've effected is better for it. Of course, the converse is true, too.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Fall, World, Made

  Interview with Veronica M. Hay, A Magazine of People and Possibilities, www.peopleandpossibilities.com. 1998.

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• An odd contradiction, if the layman were correct in his unconscious assumption that an artist begins with reality and ends with art: the converse is true - to the degree that this dichotomy has any truth - the artist begins with art, and through it arrives at reality.

  Robert Motherwell

  Art, Reality, Degrees

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• Words learn'd by rote a parrot may rehearse, But talking is not always to converse, Not more distinct from harmony divine The constant creaking of a country sign.

  William Cowper

  Country, Talking, May

  William Cowper, Henry Stebbing (1869). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper, Esq: Including the Hymns and Translations from Madame Guion, Milton, Etc. ; with a Memoir of the Author”, p.128

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