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

  Samuel Rutherford

  Rose, Lilies, May

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• I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps.

  Peggy Noonan

  Love, Moving, Fog

  Peggy Noonan (1990). “What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era”, Random House (NY)

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Pluck not the wayside flower;
  It is the traveler's dower.

  William Allingham

  Flower, Traveler

  William Allingham, Helen Paterson Allingham (1912). “Poems”

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• Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - the great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning.

  William Butler Yeats

  Morning, Children, Flower

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• I'm ripe for the picking for the Scientologists - one of those creeps. Someone's got to find me. Some little weird cult can just pluck me up, because I'm ripe for the picking.

  Conor Oberst

  Littles, Creeps, Cult

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Child, that is why all the rest are now a horror to her. That is what happens to those who pluck and eat fruits at the wrong time and in the wrong way. Oh, the fruit is good, but they loath it ever after.

  C. S. Lewis

  Children, Nephew, Way

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol VI: The Magician's Nephew”, p.136, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• Images flicker, each one bringing its own sorrow or its own smile. Sometimes both. At the very worst, an impenetrable and sightless black and at best, a happiness so bright that it hurts the eyes to see, coming and going on some unseen projector perpetually turned by an invisible hand. One, then another. The hollow click of the shutter. Now stop. Freeze this frame. Pluck it down and hold it close and be damned by what you see. Henri always said: the price of a memory is the memory if the sorrow it brings.

  Pittacus Lore

  Hurt, Memories, Eye

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• I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall; I'll slay more gazers than the basalisks; I'll play the orator as well as Nestor, Decieve more slily that Ulysses could, And like a Sinon, take another Troy. I can add colors to the chameleon, Change shapes with Proteus for advantages And set the murderous Machiavel to school. Can I do this, and cannot get a crown? Tut! were it further off, I'll pluck it down.

  William Shakespeare

  School, Color, Play

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• My fingers positively itched to drift at length along their spines, to arrive at one whose lure I could not pass, to pluck it down, to inch it open, then to close my eyes and inhale the soul-sparking scent of old and literate dust.

  Kate Morton

  Eye, Dust, Soul

  Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• The harmony that holds the stars on their courses and the flesh on our bones resonates through all creation. Every sound contains its echo. Before there was humankind, or even forest, there was sound. Sound spread from the source in great circles like those formed when a stone is dropped in a pool. We follow waves of sound from life to life. A dying man’s ears will hear long after his eyes are blind. He hears the sound that leads him to his next life as the Source of All being plucks the harp of creation.

  Morgan Llywelyn

  Stars, Eye, Men

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