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• There is room enough in human life to crowd almost every art and science in it. If we pass ""no day without a line""-visit no place without the company of a book-we may with ease fill libraries or empty them of their contents. The more we do, the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

  William Hazlitt

  Art, Book, Library

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• Friendship is but a name, faith is an empty name. Alas,
  it is not safe to praise to a friend the object of your love;
  as soon as he believes your praises, he slips into your place.

  Ovid

  Friendship, Believe, Names

  Ovid, G. P. Goold (1985). “The art of love, and other poems”

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• If Jupiter should hurl a bolt whenever men sin,
  His armory would quickly be empty.

  Ovid

  Men, Jupiter, Sin

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• When a poor disconsolated drooping creature is terrified from all enjoyment,--prays without ceasing 'till his imagination is heated,--fasts and mortifies and mopes, till his body is in as bad a plight as his mind; is it a wonder, that the mechanical disturbancesof an empty belly, interpreted by an empty head, should be mistook for [the] workings [of God].

  Laurence Sterne

  Imagination, Mind, Plight

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• I finally had what I'd wantes all those years. Except now that I had it, i felt as empty as this unkempt pool I was dangling my legs into.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Years, Legs, Pool

  Khaled Hosseini (2004). “The Kite Runner”, p.73, Penguin

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• Each time I saw a cliff, I wondered whether I could free solo it. My life shaped itself around the understanding that falling means I die. To break the paradigm I had to empty out my essence, rummaging for fundamentals I thought were gone forever.

  Dean Potter

  Fall, Mean, Essence

  "Dean Potter, in his own words: I dream of feathers sprouting on my arms", www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2015.

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• Notion without intuition is empty, intuition without notion is blind.

  Immanuel Kant

  Intuition, Blind, Notion

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• In very truth the days are almost free, and if it is another way of saying that our lives are empty, well -- there are days when emptiness is spacious, and non-existence elevating . . .

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

  Way, Emptiness, Existence

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• Lord, You have told me who You are, You have in mercy revealed Yourself to me, I know You to be that blessed 'gift of God' which alone can save and satisfy my soul. The depth and compass of heavenly love are manifested in You, and You have shown me, not my need only, but the sufficiency of Your grace and power to meet it. I am an empty sinner, You are a full Christ!

  Susannah Spurgeon

  Blessed, Grace, Soul

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• The military and the clergy cause us much annoyance; the clergy and the military, they empty our wallets and rob our intelligence.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Military, Causes, Wallets

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• When our identity expands to include everything, we find a peace with the dance of the world. The ocean of life rises and falls within us - birth and death, joy and pain, it is all ours, and our heart is full and empty, large enough to embrace it all.

  Jack Kornfield

  Pain, Ocean, Fall

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• Although the Christian is thus free from all works, he ought in this liberty to empty himself, take upon himself the form of a servant, be made in the likeness of men, be found in human form, and to serve, help and in every way deal with his neighbor as he sees that God through Christ has dealt and still deals with him.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Men, Liberty

  Martin Luther (2011). “Martin Luther: Selections From His Writing”, p.75, Anchor

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• Begin with loss and see
  how the world contradicts you,
  how the horizon implies that beyond it
  the water is not empty
  but full of ships
  all docking at another island.

  Lynn Emanuel

  Hope, Loss, Islands

  Lynn Emanuel (1979). “Oblique light”, Slow Loris Pr

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• I want to be really special, I want to be really good. It's not enough to be famous for me. Famous is empty so quickly, it's not what people think it is. It's wonderful, but if you're famous and you feel that you're an artist inside and everyone thinks you're just a celebrity, it's really painful.

  Cher

  Artist, Thinking, People

  "New Again: Cher". Interview with Bob Colacello and Andy Warhol, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 12, 2013.

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• I think everyone spins. You would just be an empty vacant shell reporting facts. I mean, you have your life that you bring with you to every moment that happens.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Mean, Thinking, Shells

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Not in nature but in man is all the beauty and worth he sees. The world is very empty, and is indebted to this gilding, exalting soul for all its pride.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Pride, Men, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.86, Harvard University Press

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• As desire recedes, the world becomes clear, pale, and empty.

  Mason Cooley

  Desire, World, Pale

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• The history of mathematics, lacking the guidance of philosophy, [is] blind, while the philosophy of mathematics, turning its back on the most intriguing phenomena in the history of mathematics, is empty.

  Imre Lakatos

  Philosophy, Intriguing, Guidance

  Imre Lakatos (1976). “Proofs and Refutations: The Logic of Mathematical Discovery”, p.2, Cambridge University Press

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• Science with its retorts would have put me to sleep; it was the opportunity to be ignorant that I improved. It suggested to me that there was something to be seen if one had eyes. It made a believer of me more than before. I believed that the woods were not tenantless, but choke-full of honest spirits as good as myself any day,--not an empty chamber, in which chemistry was left to work alone, but an inhabited house,--and for a few moments I enjoyed fellowship with them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Sleep, Eye

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.621, Delphi Classics

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• How then can we account for the persistence of the myth that inside the empty nest lives a shattered and depressed shell of a woman--a woman in constant pain because her children no longer live under her roof? Is it possible that a notion so pervasive is, in fact, just a myth?

  Lillian B. Rubin

  Children, Pain, Persistence

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• Contrary to all we hear about women and their empty-nest problem, it may be fathers more often than mothers who are pained by thechildren's imminent or actual departure--fathers who want to hold back the clock, to keep the children in the home for just a little longer. Repeatedly women compare their own relief to their husband's distress

  Lillian B. Rubin

  Mother, Children, Husband

  Lillian B. Rubin (1981). “Women of a certain age: the midlife search for self”, Harpercollins

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• Virtue is no empty echo.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Echoes, Virtue

  "The Word of the Faithful" by Friedrich Schiller, st. 3, 1797.

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• I know that we often tremble at an empty terror; yet the false fancy brings a real misery.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Real, Fancy, Anticipation

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• Vain is equivalent to empty; thus vanity is so miserable a thing, that one cannot give it a worse name than its own. It proclaims itself for what it is.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Vanity, Names, Giving

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (1902). “The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort”

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• One of the functions of thought is to be occupied all the time with something. Most of us want to have our minds continually occupied so that we are prevented from seeing ourselves as we actually are. We are afraid to be empty. We are afraid to look at our fears.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Time, Fear, Mind

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2013). “On Fear”, p.9, Harper Collins

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