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• The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.

  John Milton

  Running, Lying, Cells

  John Milton (1824). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Principally from the Edition of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster, and Thomas Warton, to which is Prefixed, Newton's Life of Milton”, p.368

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• Cities at daybreak are no one's,
  and have no names.
  And I, too, have no name,
  dawn, the stars growing pale,
  the train picking up speed.

  Adam Zagajewski

  Stars, Cities, Names

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• The future of English fiction may rest with this Unknown Public - a reading public of three millions which lies right out of the pale of true literary civilization - which is now waiting to be taught the difference between a good book and a bad.

  Wilkie Collins

  Lying, Book, Reading

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• God wrote His loveliest poem on the day He made the first silver poplar tree, And set it high upon a pale-gold hill For all the new enchanted earth to see.

  Grace Noll Crowell

  Tree, Gold, Earth

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• Pale sunlight, pale the wall. Love moves away. The light changes I need more grace than I thought.

  Rumi

  Love, Change, Wall

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• The vineyard country, russet, reddish, carmine-brown in this season.
  A blue outline of hills above a fertile valley.
  It's warm as long as the sun does not set, in the shade cold returns.
  A strong sauna and then swimming in a pool surrounded by trees.
  Dark redwoods, transparent pale-leved birches.
  In their delicate network, a sliver of the moon.
  I describe this for I have learned to doubt philosophy
  And the visible world is all that remains.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Country, Strong, Philosophy

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• I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well.

  Bram Stoker

  Lying, Fall, Eye

  Bram Stoker (2007). “Dracula”, p.597, Book Jungle

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• For me, fishing and journalism touched the same places in my head. In comparison with that of poets, the fly fishers' and the journalists' experiences are probably pale flavors, but they carry nonetheless a hint of ambrosia.

  Howell Raines

  Fishing, Hints, Flavor

  Howell Raines (2006). “The One that Got Away: A Memoir”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• Let this be your wall of brass, to have nothing on your conscience, no guilt to make you turn pale.

  Horace

  Wall, Guilt, Brass

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• Index-learning turns no student pale,
  Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail.
  Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.

  Alexander Pope

  Learning, Science, Superficial Knowledge

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• What divides us pales in comparison to what unites us.

  Edward Kennedy

  Diversity, Divides, Comparison

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• You may build castles in the air, and fume, and fret, and grow thin and lean, and pale and ugly, if you please. But I tell you, no man worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or will be so.

  John Vanbrugh

  Men, Air, Wife

  William. II Congreve William Wycherley (John Vanbrugh and Farquhar George), William. II Wycherley, William Congreve, George Farquhar, John Vanbrugh (1840). “Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840”, p.317

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• The smell of manure, of sun on foliage, of evaporating water, rose to my head; two steps farther, and I could look down into the vegetable garden enclosed within its tall pale of reeds - rich chocolate earth studded emerald green, frothed with the white of cauliflowers, jeweled with the purple globes of eggplant and the scarlet wealth of tomatoes.

  Doris Lessing

  Summer, Garden, Eggplant

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• I suppose there were moonless nights and dark ones with but a silver shaving and pale stars in the sky, but I remember them all as flooded with the rich indolence of a full moon.

  Willa Cather

  Stars, Dark, Moon

  Willa Cather (1998). “Obscure Destinies”, p.175, U of Nebraska Press

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• That is the charm of a map. It represents the other side of the horizon where everything is possible. It has the magic of anticipation without the toil and sweat of realization. The greatest romance ever written pales before the possibilities of adventure that lie in the faint blue trails from sea to sea. The perfect journey is never finished, the goal is always just across the next river, round the shoulder of the next mountain. There is always one more track to follow, one more mirage to explore. Achievement is the price which the wanderer pays for the right to venture.

  Rosita Forbes

  Lying, Adventure, Journey

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• I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagus
  With tigery stripes, and a face on it
  Round as the moon, to stare up.
  I want to be looking at them when they come
  Picking among the dumb minerals, the roots.
  I see them already-the pale, star-distance faces.
  Now they are nothing, they are not even babies.
  I imagine them without fathers or mothers, like the first gods.
  They will wonder if I was important.

  Sylvia Plath

  Mother, Baby, Stars

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• Our devil has pale skin and blue eyes

  Jose Angel Gutierrez

  Eye, Blue, Pale Skin

  John C. Hammerback, Richard J. Jensen, Jose Angel Gutierrez (1985). “A War of Words: Chicano Protest in the 1960s and 1970s”, Praeger Pub Text

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• How index-learning turns no student pale,
  Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!

  Alexander Pope

  Science, Eels, Library

  Alexander Pope (1856). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.247

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• He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.

  Samuel Johnson

  Names, World, Moral

  'The Vanity of Human Wishes' (1749) l. 219 (on Charles XII of Sweden)

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• Once upon a perfect night, unclouded and still, there came the face of a pale and beautiful lady. The tresses of her hair reached out to make the constellations, and the dewy vapours of her gown fell soft upon the land.

  Kit Williams

  Beautiful, Night, Hair

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• Earth is only a pale version of heaven, not the other way around.

  Greg Laurie

  Heaven, Earth, Way

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• During college, when I was working full time for my father [the decorator Mark Hampton], I rented an apartment and I just couldn't take time off to paint it. So I went there one evening and stayed up all night painting the place what I thought was a lovely pale yellow. When the sun came up, I realized I'd painted the walls the color of insanity. I had to immediately mix in all my trim color to tone it down. Yellow is an electric color and wholly misleading. It becomes more yellow with the sun's yellow light on it. The moral is, even if you think your yellow is the one, go paler.

  Alexa Hampton

  Wall, Father, Night

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• The childlike, gum-chewing naivete, the glamour rooted in despair, the self-admiring carelessness, the perfected otherness, the wispiness, the shadowy, voyeuristic, vaguely sinister aura, the pale, soft-spoken magical presence, the skin and bones . . .

  Andy Warhol

  Self, Despair, Skins

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Therefore the moon, the governess of floods,
  Pale in her anger washes all the air,
  That rheumatic diseases do abound;
  And through this distemperature we see
  The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts
  Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose.

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Science, Moon

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 2, sc. 1, l. 103

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• Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs, music on disks, or images gliding over a pale screen.

  Ella Maillart

  Sunshine, Ice, Gliding

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