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• Sleep on, Baby, on the floor, Tired of all the playing, Sleep with smile the sweeter for That you dropped away in! On your curls' full roundness stand Golden lights serenely-- One cheek, pushed out by the hand, Folds the dimple inly.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Baby, Tired, Sleep

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.102

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• LAOCOON, n. A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that name and his two sons in the folds of two enormous serpents. The skill and diligence with which the old man and lads support the serpents and keep them up to their work have been justly regarded as one of the noblest artistic illustrations of the mastery of human intelligence over brute inertia.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Son, Men, Illustration

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.163, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• No one has success, until he has the abounding life. This is made up of the many-fold qualities of energy, enthusiasm, and gladness.

  L. Whitney Clayton

  Success, Quality, Energy

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• The Church is everywhere represented as one. It is one body, one family, one fold, one kingdom. It is one because pervaded by one Spirit. We are all baptized into one Spirit so as to become, says the apostle, on body.

  Charles Hodge

  Church, Body, Kingdoms

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• I wanted to wear her as you would a piece of clothing, to fold into her ribs, be a stone in her mouth.

  Hisham Matar

  Ribs, Pieces, Mouths

  Hisham Matar (2011). “Anatomy of a Disappearance”, p.13, Penguin UK

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• The rain water enlivens all living beings of the earth both movable (insects, animals, humans, etc.) and immovable (plants, trees, etc.), and then returns to the ocean it value multiplied a million fold.

  Chanakya

  Rain, Ocean, Animal

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• Large Professor, none greater none fresher,
  Won't fold under pressure...grew up down the road from Fran Drescher.

  Extra P

  Rap, Hip Hop, Pressure

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• I've always written. At the age of six or seven, I would get sheets of A4 paper and fold them in half, cut the edges to make a little eight-page booklet, break it up into squares and put in little stick men with little speech bubbles, and I'd have a spy story, a space story and a football story.

  Ian Rankin

  Football, Cutting, Men

  "Gothic Scot". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2001.

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• Your God is not our God! Your God loves your people and hates mine! He folds his strong protecting arms lovingly about the paleface and leads him by the hand as a father leads an infant son.

  Chief Seattle

  God, Strong, Father

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• I have come to light the lamp of Love in your hearts, to see that it shines day by day with added luster. I have not come on behalf of any exclusive religion. I have not come on a mission of publicity for a sect or creed or cause, nor have I come to collect followers for a doctrine. I have no plan to attract disciples or devotees into my fold or any fold. I have come to tell you of this unitary faith, this spiritual principle, this path of Love, this virtue of Love, this duty of Love, this obligation of Love.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Love, Spiritual, Heart

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Jun 29, 2013

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• If you stop for one second and do something, everyone is happy. You pay it forward and it comes back to you twelve-fold.

  Mariska Hargitay

  Pay It Forward, Twelve, Ifs

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• Nuclear power has died of an incurable attack of market forces and is way beyond any hope of revival, because the competitors are several-fold cheaper and are getting rapidly more so.

  Amory Lovins

  Climate, Nuclear, Way

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• There is a tiny yellow daffodil, The butterfly can see it from afar, Although one summer evening's dew could fill Its little cup twice over, ere the star Had called the lazy shepherd to his fold, And be no prodigal.

  Oscar Wilde

  Summer, Stars, Butterfly

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “Poems”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• For every man's nature is concealed with many folds of disguise, and covered as it were with various veils. His brows, his eyes, and very often his countenance, are deceitful, and his speech is most commonly a lie.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Lying, Eye, Men

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1850). “Cicero's Three Books of Offices, or Moral Duties; also his Cato Major, an essay on Old Age; Lælius, an essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the duties of a magistrate. Literally translated, with notes ... by Cyrus R. Ed”, p.313

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• The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.

  Matthew Arnold

  Faith, Night, Wind

  "Dover Beach" l. 21 (1867)

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• This is the pleasantest part of life. Oblivion throws her light coverlet over our infancy; and, soon after we are out of the cradle we forget how soundly we had been slumbering, and how delightful were our dreams. Toil and pleasure contend for us almost the instant we rise from it: and weariness follows whichever has carried us away. We stop awhile, look around us, wonder to find we have completed the circle of existence, fold our arms, and fall asleep again.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Dream, Fall, Light

  Walter Savage Landor (1836). “Pericles and Aspasia”

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• I would that with sleepy, soft embraces The sea would fold mewould find me rest In luminous shades of her secret places, In depths where her marvels are manifest; So the earth beneath her should not discover My hidden couchnor the heaven above her As a strong love shielding a weary lover, I would have her shield me with shining breast.

  Adam Lindsay Gordon

  Strong, Secret Places, Sea

  The Swimmer', stanza 5, collected in Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes (1870).

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• Depend upon it, as long as the church is living so much like the world, we cannot expect our children to be brought into the fold.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Children, Long, Church

  Dwight L Moody (1897). “God's Good News”, p.10, Moody Publishers

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• There is something laughable about the sight of authors who enjoy the rustling folds of long and involved sentences: they are trying to cover up their feet.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sight, Feet, Long

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.227, Vintage

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• Investment in AIDS will be repaid a thousand-fold in lives saved and communities held together.

  Peter Piot

  Community, Together, Poverty

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• Fold and live to fold again.

  Stu Ungar

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• Here's to woman! Would that we could fold into her arms without falling into her hands.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Love, Women, Fall

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• Fold him in his country's stars.
  Roll the drum and fire the volley!
  What to him are all our wars,
  What but death bemocking folly?

  George Henry Boker

  Uplifting, Country, Veterans Day

  George Henry Boker (1864). “Poems of the War”, p.169

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• Our hands imbibe like roots, so i place them on what is beautiful in this world. And I fold them in prayer, and they draw from the heavens light

  Francis of Assisi

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Prayer

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• My daughter is very strong-willed and is a great kid. She doesn't drink. She doesn't smoke. She doesn't fold to peer pressure. I think how affectionate my wife and I have been with her over the years all plays into that. She realizes the more people she is exposed to that kids who have both parents around grow up to be much better people.

  Doug Flutie

  Daughter, Mother, Strong

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