Slender Quotes

• A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

  George Washington

  True Friend, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  George Washington, Stephen Lucas (1999). “The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot”, p.39, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

  Carl Jung

  Niece, Thoughtful, Tree

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• My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.

  Mark Twain

  Family, Mothers Day, Mom

  Mark Twain, Milton Meltzer (2002). “Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography”, p.22, University of Missouri Press

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• There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind the wagon-wheels of pacific theories.

  Soong May-ling

  Peace, Business, Shadow

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• The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay.

  Samuel Johnson

  Decay, Disease

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1811). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes”, p.81

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• I know I don't look like the skinny slender model. I know I look a little different but people like to watch me for some reason. It feels good and I'm humbled by it.

  Gina Carano

  People, Feel Good, Skinny

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The third order, called Corinthian, is an imitation of the slenderness of a maiden; for the outlines and limbs of maidens, being more slender on account of their tender years, admit of prettier effects in the way of adornment.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Order, Years, Way

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book IV, Chapter I, Section 8,

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• I was very slender and small. All my friends were on the team, so I had to make it too. I was a very aggressive player. I wanted to be one of the best, but I just ended up as one of the good ones.

  Ed O'Neill

  Team, Player, Aggressive

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• Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Moving, Omnipotence

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon “Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 12: 1866”, Lulu.com

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• To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.

  Gore Vidal

  Men, Bird, Tree

  Gore Vidal (1987). “Armageddon?: essays 1983-1987”, Andre Deutsch Ltd

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• The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me.

  Ida Tarbell

  Circles, Chance, Abandoned

  Ida M. Tarbell (2015). “All in the Day's Work: An Autobiography”, p.68, Ravenio Books

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• All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.

  Edmund Waller

  Strings, Humans, Values

  Edmund Waller (1729). “The works of Edmund Waller, Esqr., in verse and prose”, p.9

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• The Chanel woman is slender, sophisticated and chic.

  Gaspard Ulliel

  Sophisticated, Chic

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• Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved. The soul that is attached to anything, however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of Divine union. For whether it be a strong wire rope or a slender and delicate thread that holds the bird, it matters not, if it really holds it fast; for until the cord be broken, the bird cannot fly.

  John of the Cross

  Strong, Broken, Bird

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• The affected modesty of most women is a decoy for the generous, the delicate, and unsuspecting; while the artful, the bold, and unfeeling either see or break through its slender disguises.

  William Hazlitt

  Women, Break Through, Modesty

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.475

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• Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Presidential, Innovation, Majority

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1808-1816”, p.31, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Inspiration is a slender river of brightness leaping from a vast and eternal knowledge, it exceeds reason more perfectly than reason exceeds the knowledge of the senses.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Teacher, Teaching, Inspiration

  "Thoughts and Aphorisms". Book by Sri Aurobindo, 1913.

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• All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruins.

  Ovid

  Strong, Fall, Ruins

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• I remember, I remember The fir-trees dark and high; I used to think their slender tops Were close against the sky; It was a childish ignorance, But now 't is little joy To know I'm farther off from heaven Than when I was a boy.

  Thomas Hood

  Ignorance, Dark, Boys

  1826 'I Remember'.

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• Hello toes," I say. They're good toes. I like that they're long and slender and not the slightest bit stubby. I wiggle them, ten unstubby waves that say, "And hello to you, Human Host!" Except they're toes. I'm talking to my toes. Maybe I'm not bored... maybe I'm lonely?

  Lauren Myracle

  Lonely, Talking, Bored

  Lauren Myracle (2013). “Bliss”, p.74, Abrams

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• I'm just very careful with my words when I write. Obsessively careful. I'm the sort of person who worries about the difference between "slim" and "slender."

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Writing, Differences, Worry

  Interview with Peter Hodges and Kate Baker, March 21, 2008.

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• Each leaf that brushed his face deepened his sadness and dread. Each leaf he passed he'd never pass again. They rode over his face like veils, already some yellow, their veins like slender bones where the sun shone through them. He had resolved himself to ride on for he could not turn back and the world that day was as lovely as any day that ever was and he was riding to his death.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Sadness, Yellow, Lovely

  "Child of God". Book by Cormac McCarthy, 1973.

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• Your soul is a chosen landscape Where charming masked and costumed figures go Playing the lute and dancing and almost Sad beneath their fantastic disguises. All sing in a minor key Of all-conquering love and careless fortune They do not seem to believe in their happiness And their song mingles with the moonlight. The still moonlight, sad and beautiful, Which gives the birds to dream in the trees And makes the fountain sprays sob in ecstasy, The tall, slender fountain sprays among the marble statues.

  Paul Verlaine

  Beautiful, Dream, Song

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• She lifted up her hand and from the ring that she wore there issued a great light that illuminated her alone and left all else dark. She stood before Frodo seeming now tall beyond measurement, and beautiful beyond enduring, terrible and worshipful. Then she let her hand fall, and the light faded, and suddenly she laughed again, and lo! she was shrunken: a slender elf-woman, clad in simple white whose gentle voice was soft and sad.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Beautiful, Laughter, Fall

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• She looked at a silver birch: it would have a soft, showery voice and would look like a slender girl, with hair blown all about her face and fond of dancing. She looked at the oak: he would be a wizened, but hearty, old man with a frizzled beard and warts on his fact and hands, with hair growing out of the warts. She looked at the beech under which she was standing. Ah! --she would be the best of all. She would be a gracious goddess, smooth and stately, the Lady of the Wood.

  C. S. Lewis

  Girl, Men, Hair

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