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• Oh roses for the flush of youth, And laurel for the perfect prime; But pluck an ivy branch for me Grown old before my time.

  Christina Rossetti

  Time, Ivy, Perfect

  'Oh Roses for the Flush'

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• I have likewise made many 'skies' and effects - for I wish it could be said of me as Fuselli says of Rembrandt, 'he followed nature in her calmest abodes and could pluck a flower on every hedge - yet he was born to cast a steadfast eye on the bolder phenomena of nature'... We have had noble clouds & effects of light & dark & color.

  John Constable

  Flower, Eye, Dark

  John Constable (1968). “John Constable's Correspondence”

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• The good Husbandman may pluck His rose & gather in His lily.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Rose, Lilies, May

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• Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy or consolation, but so that he shall throw off the chain and pluck the living flower. The criticism of religion disillusions man, so that he will think, act, and fashion his reality like a man who has discarded his illusions and regained his senses, so that he will move around himself as his own true Sun. Religion is only the illusory Sun which revolves around man as long as he does not revolve around himself.

  Karl Marx

  Fashion, Flower, Moving

  "Collected Works", v. 3, " Introduction to A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right" by Karl Marx, 1843.

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• If you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

  Robertson Davies

  Happiness, Happy, Worry

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• If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.

  Martial

  Respect, Lions, Beard

  Martial (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Martial (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Able, Misery, Remove

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• Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red.

  William Shakespeare

  Ocean, Blood, Hands

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 2, l. 61

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• As though prayer could simply pluck sin out. But any woman knows that a thread, once woven, is fixed in place; the only way to smooth a mistake is to let it all unravel.

  Hannah Kent

  Prayer, Mistake, Woven

  Hannah Kent (2013). “Burial Rites”, p.73, Pan Macmillan

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• Don Pedro - (...)'In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.' Benedick - The savage bull may, but if ever the sensible Benedick bear it, pluck off the bull's horns and set them in my forehead, and let me be vildly painted; and in such great letters as they writes, 'Here is good horse for hire', let them signify under my sign, 'Here you may see Benedick the married man.

  William Shakespeare

  Horse, Writing, Men

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• And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.

  William Butler Yeats

  Valentines Day, Time, Moon

  "The Song of Wandering Aengus" l. 19 (1899)

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• In times of difficulty we must not lose sight of our achievements, must see the bright future and must pluck up our courage.

  Mao Zedong

  Struggle, Sight, Achievement

  Zedong Mao (1967). “The Thoughts of Chairman Mao Tsê-tung”

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• I would not be a rose upon the wall
  A queen might stop at, near the palace-door,
  To say to a courtier, "Pluck that rose for me,
  It's prettier than the rest." O Romney Leigh!
  I'd rather far be trodden by his foot,
  Than lie in a great queen's bosom.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Life, Queens, Wall

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1857). “Aurora Leigh”, p.129

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• Never trust a guy who plucks his eyebrows.

  Robert Pattinson

  Funny, Eyebrows, Guy

  "'Twilight' DVD: Best of Robert Pattinson's audio commentary" by Mandi Bierly, ew.com. March 23, 2009.

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• Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Meaning Of Life, Razors, Sides

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• A question arises regarding the angels who dwell with us, serve us and protect us, whether their joys are equal to those of the angels in heaven, or whether they are diminished by the fact that they protect and serve us. No, they are certainly not; for the work of the angels is the will of God, and the will of God is the work of the angels; their service to us does not hinder their joy nor their working. If God told an angel to go to a tree and pluck caterpillars off it, the angel would be quite ready to do so, and it would be his happiness, if it were the will of God.

  Meister Eckhart

  Angel, Protect And Serve, Heaven

  Meister Eckhart (2007). “Meister Eckhart's Sermons”, p.31, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I would sooner pluck one single brand from the burning than explain all mysteries.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Burning, Mystery, Salvation

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon “The autobiography”, Рипол Классик

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• Turn off your computer and go out of doors. Dig a large enough hole to transplant a mature apple tree. Nurture the tree, feed it, coddle it so that its fruit will be ample, bright and firm. Practice open-hand strikes against the rough bark of the trunk until it's time to harvest. Choose the champion of your apple crop, pluck it from the tree, and beat yourself about the face and tits with it until your mettle will suffice.

  Nick Offerman

  Doors, Hands, Practice

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. March 13, 2013.

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• [Zarathustra] never abandoned the watchword of not having any end, not serving a cause, because, as he knew, causes pluck off the wings we fly with.

  Georges Bataille

  Wings, Causes, Abandoned

  Georges Bataille (2004). “On Nietzsche”, p.29, A&C Black

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• Whoever wishes to be a Christian, let him pluck out the eyes of his reason.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Eye, Wish

  Martin Luther, Jaroslav Pelikan, Helmut T. Lehmann (1955). “Works”

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• Flowers are the beautiful hairs of the Mother Spring! Don't pluck them!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Beautiful, Mother, Spring

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• I must not fall asleep in the middle of my life. Out of the blankness that surrounds me I must pluck the incident after incident after incident whose little explosions keep me going.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Life, Fall, Littles

  J. M. Coetzee (2017). “In the Heart of the Country: A Novel”, p.33, Penguin

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• You are young, and I am older;
  You are hopeful, I am not-
  Enjoy life, ere it grow colder-
  Pluck the roses ere they rot.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Rose, Hopeful, Enjoy Life

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.684, Library of America

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• We cannot pluck a flower witout disturbing a star.

  Loren Eiseley

  Stars, Flower, Disturbing

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• We give ourselves to prayer. We preach a Gospel that saves to the uttermost, and witness to its power. We do not argue about worldliness; we witness. We do not discuss philosophy; we preach the Gospel. We do not speculate about the destiny of sinners; we pluck them as brands from the burning. We ask no man's patronage. We beg no man's money. We fear no man's frownLet no man join us who is afraid, and we want none but those who are saved, sanctified and aflame with the fire of the Holy Ghost.

  Samuel Chadwick

  Prayer, Philosophy, Destiny

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