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• Caffeine is my shepherd; I shall not doze. It maketh me to wake in green pastures: It leadeth me beyond the sleeping masses. It restoreth my buzz.

  Bob Phillips

  Coffee, Sleep, Shepherds

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• The effect, if not the prime office, of criticism is to make our absorption and our enjoyment of the things that feed the mind as aware of itself as possible, since that awareness quickens the mental demand, which thus in turn wanders further and further for pasture. This action on the part of the mind practically amounts to a reaching out for the reasons of its interest, as only by its ascertaining them can the interest grow more various. This is the very education of our imaginative life.

  Henry James

  Office, Mind, Criticism

  Henry James (1969). “Notes on Novelists: With Some Other Notes”, p.315, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• Ambition will take you And ride you too far and Conservatism bring you to boredom once more Sit down by the river And watch the stream flow Recall all the dreams That you once used to know The things you've forgotten That took you away To pastures not greener but meaner.

  Van Morrison

  Dream, Ambition, Rivers

  Song: I'm Tired Joey Boy

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• Like all real treasures of the mind, perception can be split into infinitely small fractions without losing its quality. The weeds in a city lot convey the same lesson as the redwoods; the farmer may see in his cow-pasture what may not be vouchsafed to the scientist adventuring in the South Seas.

  Aldo Leopold

  Weed, Real, Sea

  Aldo Leopold (1968). “A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There”, p.155, Oxford University Press

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• There was a beauty here bigger than the hurtling beauty of basketball, a beauty refined from country pastures, a game of solitariness, of waiting, waiting for the pitcher to complete his gaze toward first base and throw his lightning, a game whose very taste, of spit and dust and grass and sweat and leather and sun, was America.

  John Updike

  Basketball, Baseball, Country

  John Updike (2006). “Rabbit Redux”, p.81, Penguin UK

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• When on the breath of Autumn's breeze, From pastures dry and brown, Goes floating, like an idle thought, The fair, white thistle-down; O, then what joy to walk at will, Upon the golden harvest-hill!

  Mary Howitt

  Autumn, White, Joy

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• He who abhors and shuns the light of the Sun,He who refuses to behold with respect the living creation of God,He who leads the good to wickedness,He who makes the meadows waterless and the pastures desolate,He who lets fly his weapon against the innocent,An enemy of my faith, a destroyer of Thy principles is he, O Lord!

  Zoroaster

  Past, Light, Enemy

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• He guides us into pastures green, He leads to bowers of bliss, Our Father lives, the God unseen, and Christ our Shepherd is.

  Cecil Frances Alexander

  Father, Unseen, Shepherds

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• Nothing can be surprising any more or impossible or miraculous, now that Zeus, father of the Olympians has made night out of noonday, hiding the bright sunlight, and... fear has come upon mankind. After this, men can believe anything, expect anything. Don't any of you be surprised in future if land beasts change places with dolphins and go to live in their salty pastures, and get to like the sounding waves of the sea more than the land, while the dolphins prefer the mountains.

  Archilochus

  Father, Believe, Men

  "Eclipse" by James Turrell, 1999.

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• Every afternoon, I was in the pasture with cattle or fishing and shooting my BB gun. That kind of freedom allows imagination to develop.

  Lyle Lovett

  Gun, Past, Fishing

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• History, in other words, is just a device to be used by well-paid boobherds to drive the American cattle in bovine content to their pastures or to the abattoir.

  Revilo P. Oliver

  Bovine, Used, Wells

  "The Price of the Head". "Instauration" Magazine, March 1980.

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• The sun shall shine in ages yet to be, The musing moon illumine pastures dim, And afterwards a new nativity For all who slept the dreamless interim.

  Nathalia Crane

  Moon, Shining, Age

  Nathalia Crane (1925). “The Janitor's Boy and Other Poems”

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• I do resent that when you're in the most cool, powerful time of your life, which is your 40s, you're put out to pasture. I think women are so much cooler when they're older. So it's a drag that we're not allowed to age

  Rosanna Arquette

  Powerful, Thinking, Age

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• We shouldn't be put out to pasture just because we've reached somebody's idea of retirement, which was certainly happening in Australia, and I think elsewhere as well.

  John Noble

  Retirement, Thinking, Ideas

  "Fatherhood on the Fringe". Interview with Larry Getlen, www.aarp.org. November 18, 2010.

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• It is not about the pasture of the sheep, but about their wool.
  [Lat., Non est de pastu ovium quaestio, sed de lana.]

  Pope Pius II

  Past, Sheep, Wool

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• After I had written seventeen full-length mysteries, two volumes of mini-mysteries, a travel guide and some quiz books, not to mention a spin-off Roman Mystery Scrolls series, I thought it was time I moved to new historical pastures.

  Caroline Lawrence

  Book, Two, Historical

  "My inspiration: Caroline Lawrence on Mark Twain" by Caroline Lawrence, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2014.

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• A guest should be permitted to graze, as it were, in the pastures of his host's kindness, left even to his own devices, like a rational being, and handsomely neglected.

  Louise Imogen Guiney

  Kindness, Past, Guests

  Louise Imogen Guiney (1885). “Goose-quill Papers”

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• In the Scriptures be the fat pastures of the soul; therein is no venomous meat, no unwholesome thing; they be the very dainty and pure feeding. He that is ignorant, shall find there what he should learn.

  Thomas Cranmer

  Soul, Ignorant, Meat

  Thomas Cranmer, Henry Jenkyns (1833). “The Remains of Thomas Cranmer”, p.111

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• For a hundred and fifty years, in the pasture of dead horses,
  roots of pine trees pushed through the pale curves of your ribs,
  yellow blossoms flourished above you in autumn, and in winter
  frost heaved your bones in the ground--old toilers, soil makers:
  O Roger, Mackerel, Riley, Ned, Nellie, Chester, Lady Ghost.

  Donald Hall

  Horse, Winter, Autumn

  Donald Hall (1990). “Old and New Poems: Donald Hall”, p.163, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When any man expresses doubt to me as to the use that I or any other woman might make of the ballot if we had it, my answer is, What is that to you? If you have for years defrauded me of my rightful inheritance, and then, as a stroke of policy, of from late conviction, concluded to restore to me my own domain, must I ask you whether I may make of it a garden of flowers, or a field of wheat, or a pasture for kine?

  Matilda Joslyn Gage

  Flower, Men, Garden

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage (1979). “History of Woman Suffrage”, Ayer Company Pub

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• Heaven has its business and earth has its business: those are two separate things. Heaven, that's the angels' pasture; they are happy; they don't have to fret about food and drink. And you can be sure that they have black angels to do the heavy work like laundering the clouds or sweeping the rain and cleaning the sun after a storm, while the white angels sing like nightingales all day long or blow in those little trumpets like they show in the pictures we see in church.

  Jacques Roumain

  Rain, Angel, Blow

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• Tis now the twenty-third of march,
  And this warm sun takes out the starch
  Of winter's pinafore -
  Methinks The Very pasture gladly drinks
  A health to spring, and while it sips
  It faintly smacks a myriad lips.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spring, Winter, Twenties

  Elizabeth Hall Witherell, Henry David Thoreau (1979). “The Poetry of Henry David Thoreau: A Selected Critical Edition”

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• The spirit and the body carry different loads and require different attentions. Too often we put the saddlebags on Jesus and let the donkey run loose in the pasture.

  Rumi

  Running, Jesus, Past

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• I hate to see great writers like Ringel and Ansen and Jan Stuart (among many others) being put out to pastures because print media is suffering.

  Alonso Duralde

  Hate, Print Media, Suffering

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• An initiative was essentially led by civil society because the policy of the government was that Africans must not be taught to graze in pastures which were reserved for the main white group.

  Nelson Mandela

  Government, White, Groups

  Source: www.mott.org

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