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• Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at his own sweet will; Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still!

  William Wordsworth

  Sweet, Lying, Heart

  1802 Of London. 'Composed upon Westminster Bridge', Complete poem. (Published 1807).

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• Take heed, dear heart, of this large privilege; The hardest knife ill-used doth lose his edge.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Knives, Privilege

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Sonnets and Other Poems”, p.289, Palgrave Macmillan

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• The Mask "Put off that mask of burning gold With emerald eyes." "O no, my dear, you make so bold To find if hearts be wild and wise, And yet not cold." "I would but find what's there to find, Love or deceit." "It was the mask engaged your mind, And after set your heart to beat, Not what's behind." "But lest you are my enemy, I must enquire." "O no, my dear, let all that be, What matter, so there is but fire In you, in me?"

  William Butler Yeats

  Wise, Heart, Eye

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.76, Wordsworth Editions

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• Dear Lord, who made the face of me not all that I would have it be, not really homely, only plain, but strong and patient in the main. Yet one, a man apart, who found me fair and gave his heart. Now Lord, that I have grown more sage . . . into middle age. I only ask, as face grows lines of countenance, it be described as kind; that wrinkles by my eyes will show a little humor as I go; that I may view my humble scene with glance of one content, serene, through grateful, shining eyes that see the blessings you have given me.

  Ruth Perry

  Strong, Kindness, Grateful

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• She was such a good loving mother, my best friend. Oh, who was happier than I when I could still say the dear name "Mother," and it was heard, and whom can I say it to now?

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Mother, Son, Names

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• To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Art, Simplicity, Charm

  Oliver Goldsmith, Walter MACLEOD (of the Royal Military Asylum, Chelsea.) (1858). “Goldsmith's Deserted village, with remarks on the analysis of sentences, exercises in parsing, notes ... and a life of the poet ... By Walter M'Leod”, p.71

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• To be resigned when ills betide,
  Patient when favours are deni'd,
  And pleas'd with favours given, -
  Dear Chloe, this is wisdom's part;
  This is that incense of the heart
  Whose fragrance smells to heaven.

  Nathaniel Cotton

  Heart, Smell, Heaven

  "The Fireside, stanza 11". "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

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• Poetry, my dear friends, is a sacred incarnation of a smile. Poetry is a sigh that dries the tears. Poetry is a spirit who dwells in the soul, whose nourishment is the heart, whose wine is affection. Poetry that comes not in this form is a false messiah.

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Wine, Soul

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• I think my soul never was in such an agony before. I felt no restraint, for the treasures of divine grace were opened to me. I wrestled for absent friends, for the ingathering of souls, for multitudes of poor souls, and for many that I thought were the children of God, in many distant places. I was in such an agony, for half an hour before sunset, till near dark, that I was all over wet with sweat: but yet is seemed to me that I had wasted away the day, and had done nothing. Oh!, my dear Savior did sweat blood for poor souls!

  David Brainerd

  Children, Sunset, Dark

  David Brainerd (1822). “Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary”, p.65

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• Dear Teens at Starbucks wearing 'Abstain from Sex 2 Attain Ur Goals' t-shirts: Doesn't it depend on what my goals are?

  John Green

  Sex, Real, Goal

  Twitter post from Oct 27, 2009

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• The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Heart, Land, Soil

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• How blessed and amazing are God's gifts, dear friends! Life with immortality, splendor with righteous, truth with confidence, faith with assurance, self-control with holiness! And all these things are within our comprehension.

  Pope Clement I

  Faith, Blessed, Self

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• Dear Ones, Beware of the tiny gods frightened men Create To bring anesthetic relief to their sad days

  Hafez

  Wisdom, Islamic, Men

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• Love sometimes gets tired of speaking sweetly and wants to rip to shreds all your erroneous notions of the truth that make you fight within yourself, dear one, and with others, causing the world to weep on too many fine days... The Beloved sometimes wants to do us a great favor: Hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.

  Hafez

  Faith, Rip, Inspiration

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• So a maiden, whilst she remains untouched, so long is she dear to her own; when she has lost her chaste flower with sullied body, she remains neither lovely to boys nor dear to girls.

  Catullus

  Girl, Flower, Boys

  "Delphi Complete Works of Catullus".

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• His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.

  Edmund Wilson

  Life, Inspire, Style

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• Dear Mama, don't cry, your baby boy's doin' good, Tell the homies I'm in heaven, and they ain't got hoods. Seen a show with Marvin Gaye last night, it had me shook, Drippin' peppermint Schnapps, with Jackie Wilson, and Sam Cooke.

  Tupac Shakur

  Baby, Rap, Boys

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• You have introduced a topic on which our natures are at variance - a topic we should never discuss: the very name of love is an apple of discord between us. If the reality were required, what should we do? How should we feel? My dear cousin, abandon your scheme of marriage - forget it.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Cousin, Reality, Love Is

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.332, Penguin

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• Sing again, with your dear voice revealing. A tone Of some world far from ours, where music and moonlight and feeling are one.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Music, Voice, Feelings

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.306

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• The government favors the most diplomatic language. That's why any letter to them should always start with, "Dear turkeys and foul maggots..."

  Christopher Titus

  Philosophy, Government, Turkeys

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• Patriotism, or the peculiar relation of an individual to his country, is like the family instinct. In the child it is a blind devotion; in the man in intelligent love. The patriot perceives the claim made upon his country by the circumstances and time of her growth and power, and how God is to be served by using those opportunities of helping mankind. Therefore his country's honor is dear to him as his own, and he would as soon lie and steal himself as assist or excuse his country in a crime.

  George William Curtis

  Country, Children, Lying

  George William Curtis (1894). “On the principles and character of American institutions, and the duties of American citizens, 1856-1891”

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• I get an abundance of e-mail every day, some say 'dear Richard, can you call my husband, he weighs 400 pounds...' or 'my 14-year-old is 200 pounds...' or 'I just got divorced, no one wants me, I am 500 pounds.' So I pick up the phone and I call people.

  Richard Simmons

  Husband, Phones, Years

  "Interview: Richard Simmons diet". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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• Those old credulities, to Nature dear, Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of history?

  William Wordsworth

  Nature, Historical, Credulity

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.274

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• On the road, they join the bedraggled remnants of a column of exhausted Confederate soldiers evacuating burning Atlanta. Rhett makes her take note of the scene: "Take a good look, my dear. It's a historic moment. You can tell your grandchildren how you watched the Old South disappear one night."

  Vivien Leigh

  Grandchildren, Night, Atlanta

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• If you are not feeling well, if you have not slept, chocolate will revive you. But you have no chocolate! I think of that again and again! My dear, how will you ever manage?

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Thinking, Feelings, Chocolate

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