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• Resentment is like a glass of poison that a man drinks; then he sits down and waits for his enemy to die.

  Nelson Mandela

  Forgiveness, Men, Waiting

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• When one longs for a drink, it seems as though one could drink a whole ocean-that is faith; but when one begins to drink, one can only drink altogether two glasses-that is science.

  Anton Chekhov

  Faith, Ocean, Science

  Anton Chekhov (2015). “The Life and Genius of Anton Chekhov: Letters, Diary, Reminiscences and Biography: Assorted Collection of Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned Russian Author and Playwright of Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, The Three Sisters and The Seagull”, p.379, e-artnow

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• Why are atoms so small? ... Many examples have been devised to bring this fact home to an audience, none of them more impressive than the one used by Lord Kelvin: Suppose that you could mark the molecules in a glass of water, then pour the contents of the glass into the ocean and stir the latter thoroughly so as to distribute the marked molecules uniformly throughout the seven seas; if you then took a glass of water anywhere out of the ocean, you would find in it about a hundred of your marked molecules.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Ocean, Home, Science

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• Beauty hath no true glass, except it be in the sweet privacy of loving eyes.

  James Russell Lowell

  Beauty, Sweet, Eye

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.51

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• No glass renders a man's form or likeness so true as his speech.

  Ben Jonson

  Men, Speech, Form

  Ben Jonson, Robert S. Miola (2000). “Every Man in His Humour: Quarto Version”, p.53, Manchester University Press

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• It is not vain glory for a man and his glass to confer in his own chamber.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Vanity, Glory

  William Shakespeare, Nikolaus Delius (1855). “Shakspere's Werke: Romeo and Juliet. Cymbeline. Troilus and Cressida. Coriolanus. Julius Caesar. Antony and Cleopatra”

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• He's a great writer. If I didn't think so I wouldn't have tried to kill him... I was the champ and when I read his stuff I knew he had something. So I dropped a heavy glass skylight on his head at a drinking party. But you can't kill the guy. He's not human.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Crazy, Party, Drinking

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• I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business is run out of London, and most evenings I'm cuddled up in front of Skype, in my dressing gown, speaking with my studio in London. I travel a lot, my team travel a lot, but I wouldn't have it any other way.

  Victoria Beckham

  Running, Travel, Morning

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• I got so much food spit back in my face when my kids were small, I put windshield wipers on my glasses.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Baby, Children

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank”, p.292, Open Road Media

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• My fans are like my glasses. Without them I'd be blurry.

  Justin Bieber

  Cocky, Fans, Blurry

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• Words, vows, gifts, tears, and love's full sacrifice, He offers in another's enterprise; But more in Troilus thousand-fold I see Than in the glass of Pandar's praise may be, Yet hold I off.

  William Shakespeare

  Sacrifice, Tears, And Love

  William Shakespeare, Anthony B. Dawson (2003). “Troilus and Cressida”, p.94, Cambridge University Press

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• Under my head till morning; but the rain, Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh, Upon the glass and listen for reply.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Morning, Rain, Tonight

  1923 Harp-Weaver and Other Poems,'Sonnet19: What lips my lips have kissed'.

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• Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Criminals, Earth, Rogues

  Essays "Compensation" (1841)

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• Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Example, Looks, Shapes

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• The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use others as if they were glass and steel.

  Marge Piercy

  Steel, Use, Made

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Circles on the Water”, p.86, Knopf

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• I used to think marriage was a plate-glass window just begging for a brick.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Thinking, Bricks, Window

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• When you won that title you should know now that you are representing a whole country or nation with your actions and you are now in a glass house or under a microscope and you better be ready to make your people proud.

  Alexis Arguello

  Country, People, House

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• As kids we used to laugh/Who knew that life would move this fast?
  Who knew I'd have to look at you through a glass?
  And look, tell me you ain't did it, you ain't did it
  And if you did, then that's family business.

  Kanye West

  Rap, Moving, Kids

  Song: Family Business

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• If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Book, Heart, Doctrine

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• For exactly the same reason, it is sometimes satisfying to cut yourself and bleed. On those gray [sic] days where eight in the morning looks no different from noon and nothing has happened and nothing is going to happen and you are washing a glass in the sink and it breaks - accidentally - and punctures your skin. And then there is this shocking red, the brightest thing in the day, so vibrant it buzzes, this blood of yours. That is okay sometimes because at least you know you're alive.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Suicide, Morning, Self Harm

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• Science and religion, religion and science, put it as it may, they are the two sides of the same glass, through which we see darkly until these two focus together, reveal the truth.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Angel, Two, Focus

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• Methinks you are my glass, and not my brother: I see by you I am a sweet-faced youth.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Brother, Youth

  William Shakespeare (1832). “Dramatic Works: From the Text of the Corrected Copies of Steevens and Malone”, p.276

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• Astronomy is a cold, desert science, with all its pompous figures,-depends a little too much on the glass-grinder, too little on the mind. 'T is of no use to show us more planets and systems. We know already what matter is, and more or less of it does not signify.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, What Matters, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson (1904). “The complete works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”

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• The One remains, the many change and pass;
  Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly;
  Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,
  Stains the white radiance of Eternity,
  Until Death tramples it to fragments.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Life, Change, Science

  'Adonais' (1821) st. 52

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• The dimmed outlines of phenomenal things all merge into one another unless we put on the focusing-glass of theory, and screw it up sometimes to one pitch of definition and sometimes to another, so as to see down into different depths through the great millstone of the world.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Science, Depth, Different

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