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• A Morning Prayer The day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the man; help us to perform them with laughter and kind faces, let cheerfulness abound with industry. Give us to go blithely on our business all this day. Bring us to our resting beds weary and content and undishonored and grant us in the end the gift of sleep.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Morning, Business, Laughter

  Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, William Ernest Henley (1925). “The works of Robert Louis Stevenson”

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• Thus with the year Seasons return; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me; from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expung'd and raz'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.

  John Milton

  Summer, Sweet, Book

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 3, l. 37

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• Athletes have studied how to leap and how to survive the leap some of the time and return to the ground. They don't always do it well. But they are our philosophers of actual moments and the body and soul in them, and of our maneuvers in our emergencies and longings.

  Harold Brodkey

  Health, Athlete, Exercise

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• Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.

  Solomon

  Wisdom, Dust, Earth

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• When women are seen with pen in hand, they are met immediately with shrieks commanding a return to that life of pain which their writing had interrupted, a life devoted to the women's work of needle and distaff.

  Arcangela Tarabotti

  Pain, Writing, Hands

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• How is it possible not to feel that there is communication between our solitude as a dreamer and the solitudes of childhood? And it is no accident that, in a tranquil reverie, we often follow the slope which returns us to our childhood solitudes.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Communication, Childhood

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• I fancied you'd return the way you said,
  But I grow old and I forget your name.
  (I think I made you up inside my head.)

  Sylvia Plath

  Love, Thinking, Names

  sylvia plath (1971). “the bell jar”

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• To Mercy Pity Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness. For Mercy Pity Peace and Love Is God our father dear. And Mercy Pity Peace and Love Is Man his child and care. Then every man of every clime That prays in his distress Prays to the human form divine: Love Mercy Pity Peace. And all must love the human form In heathen, Turk, or Jew. Where Mercy, Love and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too.

  William Blake

  Love, Peace, Children

  William Blake (2017). “Songs of Innocence and Experience”, p.17, BookRix

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• It is a lot easier to prove that you don't love someone than it is to prove that you do, but one of the best 'proofs' I know is the desire to devote time to the person with no expectation of any sort of compensation, including gratitude, in return.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Love, Gratitude, Expectations

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• Let us return from that Table like lions breathing out fire, terrifying to the devil!

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Fire, Breathing, Catholic

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• The soul establishes itself. But how far can it swim out through the eyes And still return safely to its nest?

  John Ashbery

  Life, Eye, Swim

  John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”

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• The ellipse is as aimless as that,
  Stretching invisibly into the future so as to reappear
  In our present. Its flexing is its account,
  Return to the point of no return.

  John Ashbery

  Life, Flexing, Stretching

  John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”, Penguin Group USA

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• I have an intense desire to return to the womb. Anybody's.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Desire, Intense

  "Woody Allen: 'To have been a lead character in a juicy scandal doesn't bother me'" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. September 13, 2012.

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• To be committed means you are willing to make a promise with no exception of return.

  Peter Block

  Learning, Knowledge, Mean

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• God is a businessman. He is not going to do business with someone who shows no sign of potential return. He invests in people who demonstrate an ability to handle what He has given them.

  T. D. Jakes

  People, Giving, Given

  T. D. Jakes (2002). “The Great Investment: Balancing. Faith, Family and Finance to Build a Rich Spiritual Life”, p.47, Penguin

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• ROMEO to BALTHASAR But if thou, jealous, dost return to pry In what I further shall intend to do, By heaven, I will tear thee joint by joint And strew this hungry churchyard with thy limbs: The time and my intents are savage-wild, More fierce and more inexorable far Than empty tigers or the roaring sea.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Jealous, Sea

  William Shakespeare, Richard Proudfoot, Ann Thompson, David Scott Kastan (1998). “The Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.1037, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Return telephone calls promptly but be judicious about the time spent on the phone.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Time, Phones, Telephones

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• The only power source a book needs is you. If you have to leave for a few minutes you have not lost the story. It is waiting for you when you return. You can pick up a book and resume reading at any time, after a few minutes, a few days, even a few years. A television picture or a movie might be lost forever, but your book is waiting.

  Louis L'Amour

  Time, Book, Reading

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• When you nurture people and add value to them without expecting anything in return, they feel significant.

  John C. Maxwell

  People, Add, Influence

  John C. Maxwell, Jim Dornan (2013). “How to Influence People: Make a Difference in Your World”, p.32, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I'm not a prophet I can only use historical reality to come to a view of the future, and my view is that Africa will return to being African and not European. The advent of colonialism was foreign to the country itself, but it will return to what it was before the Europeans arrived.

  Wilbur Smith

  Country, Reality, Views

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• Three of tonights performers are members of the group Return To One, whose album Hopes and Dreams I heard for the first time a couple of weeks ago. Blown away by the album, I called Nathan Hubbard, the drummer and composer for the group, and with whom I've played on a couple of Trummerflora-related occasions, and asked him to round up several of his Return To One cohorts for tonight's show. I can't recommend their album highly enough; please pick up a copy.

  Mike Keneally

  Dream, Couple, Albums

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• Those who march with us will certainly face abuse, misunderstanding, bitter animosity, and possibly the ferocity of struggle and of danger. In return, we can only offer to them the deep belief that they are fighting that a great land may live.

  Oswald Mosley

  Struggle, Fighting, Land

  Oswald Mosley (2012). “The Greater Britain”, p.132, Black House Publishing Ltd

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• On my return to Pittsburgh, I resolved to go back to the fundamental problems of electronic structure that I had contemplated abstractly many years earlier.

  John Pople

  Years, Fundamentals, Pittsburgh

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• And so it is that we do not exist until we do; and then it is that we play with our world of existent things, and order and disorder them, and so it shall be that non-existence shall take us back from existence, and that nameless spirituality shall return to Void, like a tired child home from a very wild circus.

  Malaclypse the Younger

  Children, Home, Tired

  Malaclypse the Younger, Lord Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst (2006). “Discordia: Hail the Goddess of Chaos and Confusion”, p.156, Ronin Publishing

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• Basketball, a game which won't be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return the giraffes to the zoo.

  Ogden Nash

  Basketball, Zoos, Games

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