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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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• Thrice happy he, who by some shady grove, Far from the clamorous world; doth live his own; Though solitary, who is not alone, But doth converse with that eternal love.

  William Drummond

  Solitude, Eternal Love, World

  William Drummond (1856). “The Poetical Works”, p.85

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• Maybe the gift of any great person is the power to converse with our own hearts.

  Randall Wallace

  Heart, Great Person, Persons

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• Among the numerous requisites that must concur to complete an author, few are of more importance than an early entrance into the living world. The seed of knowledge may be planted in solitude, but must be cultivated in public. Argumentation may be taught in colleges, and theories formed in retirement; but the artifice of embellishment and the powers of attraction can be gained only by a general converse.

  Samuel Johnson

  Retirement, Writing, College

  Samuel Johnson (1977). “Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.215, Univ of California Press

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• To read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Men, Letters

  Samuel Johnson (1848). “The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler”, p.419

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• Jane Austen we know never let two men converse alone in any novel because what they said would be unknown to her.

  Jane Gardam

  Book, Men, Two

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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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• Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Conversation

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1872). “Concord Days”, p.76

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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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• We grizzle every day. I see no need of it. Whilst we converse with what is above us, we do not grow old, but grow young.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Age, Needs, Young

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.183, Penguin

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• Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses with, and ruins the character he is so industrious to advance by it.

  Joseph Addison

  Character, Men, Vanity

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1872). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.158

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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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• 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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• On the whole, and providing one is in good spirits and feeling reasonably bright, it is not hard to converse for a short space of time on subjects about which one knows little, and it is indeed often amusing to see how cunningly one can steer the conversational barque, hoisting and lowering her sails, tacking this way and that to avoid reefs, and finally racing feverishly for home with the outboard engine making a loud and cheerful noise.

  Virginia Graham

  Home, Space, Feelings

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• Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Math, Mind Blowing, Cosmos

  Twitter post from Nov 21, 2011

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• Many are those who can argue; few are those who can converse

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Arguing

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• My favourite trainers are Converse.

  Lily Donaldson

  Favourite, Trainers

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• There is a plain distinction to be made betwixt pleasure and happiness. For tho' there can be no happiness without pleasure--yet the converse of the proposition will not hold true.--We are so made, that from the common gratifications of our appetites, and the impressions of a thousand objects, we snatch the one, like a transient gleam, without being suffered to taste the other.

  Laurence Sterne

  Happiness, Gleam, Taste

  Laurence Sterne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Laurence Sterne (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• Prayer is a supernal gift of our Father in Heaven to every soul. Think of it: the absolute Supreme Being, the most all-knowing, all-seeing, all-powerful personage, encourages you and me, as insignificant as we are, to converse with Him as our Father. Our supplication can be brief or can occupy all the time needed. It can be an extended expression of love and gratitude or an urgent plea for help. He has created numberless cosmos and populated them with worlds, yet you and I can talk with Him personally, and He will ever answer.

  Richard G. Scott

  Gratitude, Powerful, Prayer

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• Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching. The simplest utterances are worthiest to bewritten, yet are they so cheap, and so things of course, that, in the infinite riches of the soul, it is like gathering a few pebbles off the ground, or bottling a little air in a phial, when the whole earth and the whole atmosphere are ours.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Simple, Air, Simplicity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.90, Graphic Arts Books

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• It is a wonderful thing that so many, and they not reckoned absurd, shall entertain those with whom they converse by giving them the history of their pains and aches and imagine such narrations their quota of conversation.

  Richard Steele

  Pain, Giving, Quota

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index”, p.132

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