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My banks they are furnish'd with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep.

William Shenstone

Sleep, Bees

William Shenstone (1804). “The Poetical Works of William Shenstone. With the Life of the Author and a Description of the Leasowes. [Edited by R. Dodsley.]”, p.80

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Hospitality invites to prayer before it checks credentials, welcomes to the table before administering the entrance exam.

Patrick Henry

Prayer, Tables, Hospitality

Patrick Henry (2000). “The Ironic Christian's Companion: Finding the Marks of God's Grace in the World”, p.89, Penguin

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Glamour is translucent — not transparent, not opaque. It invites us into the world but it doesn’t give us a completely clear picture.

Virginia Postrel

Giving, World, Opaque

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It is one of the many merits of this admirable biography of Proust's mother that it invites one to return to the novel with perhaps a fuller understanding of Proust's heredity, hinterland, and upbringing. . . . This fascinating book is full of interesting social and cultural observation, of information about French Jewish life, the position of Jews in society and, of course, the Dreyfus case. But it is essentially a study of one of the most remarkable and fruitful of mother-son relationships. As such it is a book that every Proustian will want to read.

Allan Massie

Mother, Book, Son

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Perfectionism may look good in his shiny shoes, but he’s a little bit of an asshole and no one invites him to their pool parties.

Ze Frank

Party, Shoes, Looks

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The end for which we are created invites us to walk a road that is surely sown with a lot of thorns, but it is not sad; through even the sorrow, it is illuminated by joy.

Pier Giorgio Frassati

Inspirational, God, Illumination

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I invite people to examine their lives without negativity, knowing that it's scary, but that not doing it is even scarier.

Barbara De Angelis

Knowing, People, Scary

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The best therapy for emotional blocks to math is the realization that the human race took centuries or millennia to see through the mist of difficulties and paradoxes which instructors now invite us to solve in a few minutes.

Lancelot Hogben

Block, Math, Emotional

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Music can set an atmosphere of worship which invites [the] spirit of revelation, of testimony.

Boyd K. Packer

Music, Atmosphere, Spirit

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If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. but if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly. If he shut the doors of the house of mourning against me, I would move back again and again and beg to be admitted so that I might share in what I was entitled to share. If he thought me unworthy, unfit to weep with him, I should feel it as the most poignant humiliation.

Oscar Wilde

Friendship, Moving, Doors

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Try never to be the smartest person in the room. And if you are, I suggest you invite smarter people... or find a different room. In professional circles it's called networking. In organizations it's called team building. And in life it's called family, friends, and community. We are all gifts to each other, and my own growth as a leader has shown me again and again that the most rewarding experiences come from my relationships.

Michael Dell

Graduation, Team, Memorable

Michael Dell's commencement address to University of Texas at Austin, www.graduationwisdom.com. May 2003.

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While we meant to invite debate about some ways the word was used this year, that nuance was lost, and we regret that its inclusion has become a distraction from the important debate over equality and justice.

Nancy Gibbs

Regret, Years, Justice

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I move through the third world, my third eye's the guiding light / Invite the fight, we all die tonight

Inspectah Deck

Moving, Eye, Fighting

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You've really got to wear a chastity belt in Washington to preserve your journalistic virginity. Once the secretary of state invites you to lunch
and asks your opinion, you're sunk.

I. F. Stone

Lunch, Opinion, Belts

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Do not overeat; that invites disease.

Umar

Disease

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It is the job of artists to open doors and invite in prophesies, the unknown, the unfamiliar; it’s where their work comes from, although its arrival signals the beginning of the long disciplined process of making it their own. Scientists too, as J. Robert Oppenheimer once remarked, ‘live always at the ‘edge of mystery’—the boundary of the unknown.’ But they transform the unknown into the known, haul it in like fishermen; artists get you out into that dark sea.

Rebecca Solnit

Jobs, Dark, Artist

Rebecca Solnit (2006). “A Field Guide to Getting Lost”, p.8, Penguin

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No city invites the heart to come to life as San Francisco does. Arrival in San Francisco is an experience in living.

William Saroyan

Heart, Cities, San Francisco

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With the increase of missionary work throughout the world, there must be a comparable increase in the effort to make every convert feel at home in his or her ward or branch. . . . I invite every member to reach out in friendship and love for those who come into the Church as converts.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Home, Effort, Love And Friendship

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Parents and leaders should give early help to the blase girl who is often overpainted and underdressed. She is the picture of an unhappy girl whose physical adornments, to her thinking, don't invite adequate attention. Heaven help the girl who gets the kind of attention she is seeking by being overpainted and underdressed! She will rue the day, of course, when she gets the kind of attention her flagrant invitation is giving.

Mark E. Petersen

Girl, Thinking, Giving

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If we have any criticism of our leaders, we invite Satan into our lives and beliefs.

Ezra Taft Benson

Life, Leader, Criticism

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The most successful social media experiments-whether spearheaded by one person, a group of individuals, a company, or an institution-invite you in, treat you as a friend, and make you feel at home. Look around, they say, and tell us how we can make things better; get to know us. Get involved and tell us what you think.

Melinda Blau

Home, Successful, Thinking

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Usually we regard loneliness as an enemy. Heartache is not something we choose to invite in. It's restless and pregnant and hot with the desire to escape and find something or someone to keep us company. When we can rest in the middle, we begin to have a nonthreatening relationship with loneliness, a relaxing and cooling loneliness that completely turns our usual fearful patterns upside down.

Pema Chodron

Loneliness, Heartache, Justice

Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.71, Shambhala Publications

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Listen to the sermon preached to you by the flowers, the trees, the shrubs, the sky, and the whole world. Notice how they preach to you a sermon full of love, of praise of God, and how they invite you to glorify the sublimity of that sovereign Artist who has given them being.

Paul of the Cross

Flower, Artist, Sky

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When others hurt us in ways we don't deserve, at some point we will come to the crossroads of decision. We will have to look our pain square in the face and ask, "Am I going to hang on to my anger and do violence to myself, or am I going to forgive those who have wounded me? Am I going to allow bitterness to poison and putrefy my soul, or am I going to invite God to empower me to let the anger go?"

Pam W. Vredevelt

Hurt, Pain, Squares

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Mr. Speaker, less than 10 percent of our Nation's children walk or ride their bicycles to school, and too many schools continue to invite fast-food vendors into their cafeterias.

Lois Capps

Children, School, Cafeteria

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