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I thought it very touching to see these two women, coarse and shabby and beaten, so united; to see what they could be to one another; to see how they felt for one another, how the heart of each to each was softened by the hard trials of their lives. I think the best side of such people is almost hidden from us. What the poor are to the poor is little known, excepting to themselves and God.

Charles Dickens

Heart, Thinking, Two

Charles Dickens (2017). “The Complete Novels of Charles Dickens: 20 Illustrated Classics in One Volume: Oliver Twist, The Pickwick Papers, Hard Times, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, Nicholas Nickleby, The Old Curiosity Shop, Barnaby Rudge, Martin Chuzzlewit, Dombey and Son, David Copperfield…”, p.5713, e-artnow

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We are not cowed into timidity by death and life. Were we forced to rely on our own shabby resources we would be pitiful people in deed. But the awareness of Christ's present risenness persuades us that we are buoyed up and carried on by a life greater than our own.

Brennan Manning

People, Life And Death, Would Be

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And isn't the whole world yours? For how often you set it on fire with your love and saw it blaze and burn up and secretly replaced it with another world while everyone slept. You felt in such complete harmony with God, when every morning you asked him for a new earth, so that all the ones he had made could have their turn. You thought it would be shabby to save them and repair them; you used them up and held out your hands, again and again, for more world. For your love was equal to everything.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Life, Morning, Fire

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At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try. There are only diamonds in the whole world, diamonds and perhaps the shabby gift of disillusion.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Life, Years, Trying

F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz”, p.45, Lulu.com

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It would be pretty shabby to appear flippant around a documentary that's about how much I love my fans.

Rick Springfield

Flippant, Fans, Would Be

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The band broke up because I couldn't bear Rotten anymore because he was an embarrassment with his silly hats and his, like, shabby, dirty, nasty looking appearance.

Sid Vicious

Dirty, Silly, Naughty

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It is very important that you only do what you love to do. you may be poor, you may go hungry, you may lose your car, you may have to move into a shabby place to live, but you will totally live. And at the end of your days you will bless your life because you have done what you came here to do. Otherwise, you will live your life as a prostitute, you will do things only for a reason, to please other people, and you will never have lived. and you will not have a pleasant death.
Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Death, Moving, Car

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And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me. You will always be my friend. You will want to laugh with me. And you will sometimes open your window, so, for that pleasure . . . And your friends will be properly astonished to see you laughing as you look up at the sky! Then you will say to them, 'Yes, the stars always make me laugh!' And they will think you are crazy. It will be a very shabby trick that I shall have played on you.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Stars, Crazy, Grief

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I’m writing this in part to tell you that if you ever wonder what you’ve done in your life, and everyone does wonder sooner or later, you have been God’s grace to me, a miracle, something more than a miracle. You may not remember me very well at all, and it may seem to you to be no great thing to have been the good child of an old man in a shabby little town you will no doubt leave behind. If only I had the words to tell you.

Marilynne Robinson

Children, Writing, Men

Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.52, Macmillan

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You have to remember. . .that for this little boy whom you have met, his life is just as important to him, as your life is to you. No matter how insufficient or how shabby it may seem to some, it is the only one he has.

Jonathan Kozol

Boys, Important, May

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When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.

W. H. Auden

Mistake, Science, Drawing

Dyer's Hand (1963) "The Poet and the City"

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The true men of action in our time those who transform the world are not the politicians and statesmen but the scientists. Unfortunately poetry cannot celebrate them because their deeds are concerned with things, not persons, and are therefore speechless. When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.

W. H. Auden

Art, Mistake, Science

Dyer's Hand (1963) "The Poet and the City"

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A life isn't measured in hours or minutes. Its the quality not the length. All things considered I've been luckier than most. Almost sixteen years on Earth, and I've already had eight good ones here. I expect to have eight more before all's good said and done. Nearly thirty-two years total, and that's not too shabby

Gabrielle Zevin

Eight, Years, Two

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A boy and a girl, dressed in the T-shirts and denim that are the shabby uniform of this age.

Michael Scott

Girl, Boys, Age

Michael Scott (2012). “The First Codex”, p.80, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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Affection would not be affection if it was loudly and frequently expressed; to produce it in public is like getting your household furniture out for a move. It did very well in its place, but it looks shabby or tawdry or grotesque in the sunshine.

C. S. Lewis

Moving, Sunshine, Looks

C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.46, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.

Margery Williams

Real, Eye, Hair

Margery Williams Bianco (2016). “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or, How Toys Become Real”, p.5, Lulu.com

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The Master said, “A true gentleman is one who has set his heart upon the Way. A fellow who is ashamed merely of shabby clothing or modest meals is not even worth conversing with.” (Analects 4.9)

Confucius

Heart, Gentleman, Meals

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He looked at their shabby clothes in puzzlement. “We were traveling anonymously for safety—” explained the magus. “But surely—” “—and then we were robbed on the road.” “Ah,” said the king, “the danger in being anonymous.

Megan Whalen Turner

Kings, Clothes, Safety

Megan Whalen Turner (2010). “A Conspiracy of Kings”, Greenwillow

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the association of children and fairy-stories is an accident of our domestic history. Fairy-stories have in the modern lettered world been relegated to the “nursery,” as shabby or old-fashioned furniture is relegated to the play-room, primarily because the adults do not want it, and do not mind if it is misused.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Children, Fairy Stories, Play

J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “Tales from the Perilous Realm”, p.348, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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But then, he thought, most politicians are small and shabby, the sort of people who have been bullied at school. That's why they become politicians.

Anthony Horowitz

School, People, Politician

Anthony Horowitz (2004). “Skeleton Key”, p.161, Penguin

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To do such a thing would be to transcend magic. And I beheld, unclouded by doubt, a magnificent vision of all that invisibility might mean to a man—the mystery, the power, the freedom. Drawbacks I saw none. You have only to think! And I, a shabby, poverty-struck, hemmed-in demonstrator, teaching fools in a provincial college, might suddenly become—this.

H. G. Wells

Teaching, Mean, College

H. G. Wells (2009). “The Invisible Man”, p.66, Cosimo, Inc.

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They want to deceive their people first because now they are in a very shabby situation

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

Funny, Military, People

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Of what use was it to be loved and lose one's beauty and become Real if it all ended like this? And a tear, a real tear, trickled down his little shabby velvet nose and fell to the ground.

Margery Williams

Real, Tears, Velvet

Margery Williams, Margery Williams Bianco (2011). “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Became Real”, p.35, Marshall Cavendish

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You heard about, through word of mouth,
Big Bird is out, he's in the house.
He's turnin' up, with Snuffleup,
They're really gettin' their hustle up.
They stick together like Velcro,
There Grover go, there's Elmo.
And Cookie Monster there, look he likes
To take selfies with his cell phone.
They got a homegirl named Abby,
Her last name is Cadabby,
I showed her my report card,
She said, 'Not too shabby!'
They got all types of cool kids there,
It's lots of fun if you live there,
One thing I keep forgettin' about Sesame Street...
How do you get there?

Black Thought

Fun, Rap, Kids

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A knight whose heart is set upon the Way, but who is ashamed of wearing shabby clothes and eating coarse food, is not worth calling into counsel.

Confucius

Heart, Clothes, Knights

Confucius (1998). “论语”

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