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• The word Miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is Monster. It is not one with the blowing clover and the falling rain.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Christian, Rain, Fall

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.81, Harvard University Press

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• They see us interacting with people, they see us doing serious interviews, they see us having fun, and when you're conversing with someone, you get a much clearer impression of who that person is than if they are just reading into a news piece.

  Katie Couric

  Fun, Reading, People

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• I always tried not to be too mean, but my problem is that the people I tend to find hilarious don't usually have senses of humor. So interacting with them is a little bit of an awkward engagement, because I can't really make them laugh, on top of which I've been doing an impression of them.

  Ana Gasteyer

  Mean, People, Laughing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• A very beautiful woman hardly ever leaves a clear-cut impression of features and shape in the memory: usually there remains only an aura of living color

  William Bolitho

  Beautiful, Memories, Cutting

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• Do not make an effort to impress others. When you come from the self, your expression is perfect and your impression lasts for ages.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Self, Expression, Perfect

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• I think the effective use of quotation is an important point in the art of writing. Given sparingly, quotations serve admirably as a climax or as a corroboration, but when they are long and frequent, they seriously weaken the effect of a book. We lose sight of the writer - he scatters our sympathy among others than himself - and the ideas which he himself advances are not knit together with our impression of his personality.

  George Eliot

  Art, Book, Writing

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• People get a bad impression of it [the English climate] by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on time on Tuesday next, instead of philosophically seeing it as a painter, who may do anything so long as you don't try to predict what.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Weather, Long, People

  The Observer, August 07, 1966.

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• The furnace of affliction refines us from earthly drossiness, and softens us for the impression of God's own stamp.

  Pierre Bayle

  Affliction, Stamps, Furnaces

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• Cold soup is a very tricky thing and it is a rare hostess who can carry it off. More often than not the dinner guest is left with the impression that had he only come a little earlier he could have gotten it while it was still hot.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Food, Dinner Guests, Hot

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.125, Vintage

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• There is a secret and wholesome conviction in the heart of every man or woman who has written a book that it should be no easy matter for an intelligent reader to lay down that book unfinished. There is a pardonable impression among reviewers that half an hour in its company is sufficient.

  Agnes Repplier

  Book, Heart, Men

  Agnes Repplier (1894). “In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers”

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• It was stated, . . . that the value of architecture depended on two distinct characters:--the one, the impression it receives from human power; the other, the image it bears of the natural creation.

  John Ruskin

  Character, Two, Bears

  John Ruskin (1849). “The Seven Lamps of Architecture”, p.94

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• [On Napoleon:] One has the impression of an imperious wind blowing about one's ears when one is near that man.

  Madame de Stael

  Men, Wind Blowing, Ears

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• Vermonters are not only charmless of manner, on the whole; they are also, as far as I can judge, utterly without pretence, and give the salutary impression that they don't care ten cents whether you are amused, affronted, intrigued, or bored stiff by them. Hardly anybody asked me how I liked Vermont. Not a soul said 'Have a nice day!

  Jan Morris

  Nice, Giving, Judging

  Jan Morris (1993). “Locations”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Fine blunderers in ethics we are, so generally conveying to children the basic impression that pleasantness must be wrong, and right doing unpleasant!

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Children, Ethics, Morality

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1935). “The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography”, p.20, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• Noble acts and momentous events happen in the same way and produce the same impression as the ordinary facts.

  Roberto Rossellini

  Events, Ordinary, Noble

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• When once experience taught me that I could work when I chose, and within a quarter of an hour of my determining to do so, I was relieved, in a great measure, from those embarrassments and depressions which I see afflicting many an author who waits for a mood instead of summoning it, and is the sport, instead of the master, of his own impressions and ideas.

  Harriet Martineau

  Sports, Ideas, Waiting

  Harriet Martineau (2006). “Autobiography”, p.157, Broadview Press

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• Anythin' wrong leaves a kind of impression on the eye; brain trots along afterwards with the warnin'.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Eye, Brain, Kind

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Lord Peter Views the Body”, p.179, Open Road Media

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• Between the villages of Aubiere and Romagnat in the ancient Province of Auvergne there is an old road that comes suddenly over the top of a high hill. To stand south of this ridge looking up at the highway flowing over the skyline is to receive one of those irrefutable impressions from landscape which requires more than a philosopher to explain. In this case it is undoubtedly, for some reason, one of exalted expectation.

  Hervey Allen

  Book, Expectations, Skylines

  Hervey Allen (1933). “Anthony Adverse”

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• Since I have known God in a saving manner, painting, poetry, and music have had charms unknown to me before. I have received what I suppose is a taste for them, or religion has refined my mind and made it susceptible of impressions from the sublime and beautiful. O, how religion secures the heightened enjoyment of those pleasures which keep so many from God, by their becoming a source of pride!

  Henry Martyn

  Beautiful, Art, Pride

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• Some of the men and women who will not say in so many words the thing which is not, will deliberately give a false impression. They are not the servants of truth; they are the parasites of truth.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Truth, Men, Giving

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

  Jonathan Haidt

  Life, Art, Real

  Jonathan Haidt (2006). “The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom”, p.61, Basic Books

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• The importance of the romantic element does not rest upon conjecture. Pleasing testimonies abound. Hannah More traced her earliest impressions of virtue to works of fiction; and Adam Clarke gives a list of tales that won his boyish admiration. Books of entertainment led him to believe in a spiritual world; and he felt sure of having been a coward, but for romances. He declared that he had learned more of his duty to God, his neighbor and himself from Robinson Crusoe than from all the books, except the Bible, that were known to his youth.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Spiritual, Believe, Book

  Robert Aris Willmott (1907). “Pleasures of Literature”

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• A copious manner of expression gives strength and weight to our ideas, which frequently make impression upon the mind, as iron does upon solid bodies, rather by repeated strokes than a single blow.

  William Melmoth

  Blow, Ideas, Iron

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• Good books leave an impression. Great books forever alter the way you think about what it means to be alive. You Disappear is not just a well-told story, but a dramatic recalibrating of what it means to have a mind-and a soul.

  Dara Horn

  Book, Mean, Thinking

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• True grace is natural, not artificial, because, however strenuously you strive to gain it, when it is gained it never gives the impression of effort or straining for effect.

  Frederic Dan Huntington

  Giving, Effort, Grace

  Frederic Dan Huntington (1887). “Good Talking and Good Manners: Fine Arts, with a Paper on the Social Law of Mutual Help and the Labor Problem”

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