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• Your people eat dry and tasteless flesh but it is off plates as smooth as ivory and as round as the sun.

  C. S. Lewis

  Ivory, People, Dry

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• Is it not the great end of religion, and, in particular, the glory of Christianity, to extinguish the malignant passions; to curb the violence, to control the appetites, and to smooth the asperities of man; to make us compassionate and kind, and forgiving one to another; to make us good husbands, good fathers, good friends; and to render us active and useful in the discharge of the relative social and civil duties?

  William Wilberforce

  Husband, Father, Passion

  William Wilberforce (2005). “A Practical View of Preferred Christians”, p.81, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Ay me! for aught that ever I could read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Running, Smooth Sailing

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 1, sc. 1, l. 132

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• I function better when things are going badly than when they're as smooth as whipped cream.

  Walt Disney

  Whipped Cream, Function, Cream

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• I ultimately decided to hold my tongue and settle instead for the comfort of ignorance. Not knowing the truth, I retained hope, and that hope I held like a smooth warm stone against my heart.

  Catherine Gilbert Murdock

  Heart, Ignorance, Knowing

  Catherine Gilbert Murdock (2009). “Princess Ben”, p.125, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• No individual is alone responsible for a single stepping stone along the path of progress, and where the path is smooth progress is most rapid.

  Ernest Lawrence

  Progress, Stones, Path

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• If you're Strigoi," the boy interrupted loudly, "then why don't you have horns? My friend Jeffrey said Strigoi have horns." Dimitri's eyes fell not on the boy but on me for a moment. Again, that spark of knowing shot between us. Then, face smooth and serious, Dimitri turned to the boy and answered, "Strigoi don't have horns. And even if they did, it wouldn't matter because I'm not a Strigoi.

  Richelle Mead

  Eye, Boys, Knowing

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.210, Penguin

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• At every other workplace in the nation - even Mal-Mart! - workers are being laid off. But no one at any of the bloated government bureaucracies ever need fear receiving a pink slip. All 64,750 employees at the department of Health and Human Services are apparently absolutely crucial to the smooth functioning of the department.

  Ann Coulter

  Government, Receiving, Needs

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• Wish and learn to smooth away the surly wrinkles, to raise your lids frankly, and change the fiends to confident, innocent angels, suspecting and doubting nothing, and always seeing friends where they are not sure of foes.

  Emily Bronte

  Angel, Wrinkles, Doubt

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.408, Penguin

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• With the half of a broken hope for a pillow at night
  That somehow the right is the right
  And the smooth shall bloom from the rough:
  Lord, if that were enough?

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Hope, Night, Broken

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Songs of Travel: And Other Verses”, p.36, The Floating Press

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• You cannot govern the creative impulse; all you can do is eliminate obstacles and smooth the way for it.

  Kimon Nicolaides

  Creativity, Creative, Way

  Kimon Nicolaïdes (1990). “The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study”, p.151, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We say that the words were smooth, caressing, hard, sharp, and so on: all words that refer to body touching. Indeed we can kill or elate with words as body experiences.

  Humberto Maturana

  Touching, Body, Hard

  "Reality; The Search for Objectivity or the Quest for a Compelling Argument". The Irish Journal of Psychology, Volume 9, Issue 1, 1988.

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• WE DASH THE BLACK RIVER, ITS flats smooth as stone. Not a ship, not a dinghy, not one cry of white. The water lies broken, cracked from the wind. This great estuary is wide, endless. The river is brackish, blue with the cold. It passes beneath us blurring. The sea birds hang above it, they wheel, disappear. We flash the wide river, a dream of the past. The deeps fall behind, the bottom is paling the surface, we rush by the shallows, boats beached for winter, desolate piers. And on wings like the gulls, soar up, turn, look back.

  James Salter

  Dream, Lying, Fall

  James Salter (2011). “Light Years”, p.3, Vintage

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• By this time, like one who had set out on his way by night, and travelled through a region of smooth or idle dreams, our history now arrives on the confines, where daylight and truth meet us with a clear dawn, representing to our view, though at a far distance, true colours and shapes.

  John Milton

  Dream, Truth, Distance

  John Milton (1851). “The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Biographical Introduction”, p.210

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• Usually I think if there is something imperfect in a photograph it makes the picture more real. Photographs that are slick, smooth, and imperfect seem less honest to me.

  John Loengard

  Real, Thinking, Honest

  John Loengard (1987). “Pictures under discussion”, Amphoto Books

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• Gynaecologists are very smooth indeed. Because they have to listen to woeful and sordid symptoms they develop an expression of refinement and sympathy.

  Richard Asher

  Sympathy, Expression, Symptoms

  A Sense of Asher p. 86. Pitman Medical, UK (1972)

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• The past is always with us, in the form of our photographs, which we feel as we might a rosary, wearing them smooth with the fingering of our eyes.

  A. D. Coleman

  Eye, Past, Might

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• The task of the prophet is not to smooth things over but to make things right.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Tasks, Prophet, Make Things Right

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• Be thou a bright flame before me,
  Be thou a guiding star above me,
  Be thou a smooth path below me,
  Today, tonight and forever.

  Alexander Carmichael

  Stars, Angel, Flames

  Alexander Carmichael (2012). “Celtic Prayers and Incantations”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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• A leaf that is destined to grow large is full of grooves and wrinkles at the start. Now if one has no patience and wants it smooth offhand like a willow leaf, there is trouble ahead.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Patience, Encouragement, Wrinkles

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• The sea can do craziness, it can do smooth, it can lie down like silk breathing or toss havoc shoreward; it can give gifts or withhold all; it can rise, ebb, froth like an incoming frenzy of fountains, or it can sweet-talk entirely. As I can too, and so, no doubt, can you, and you.

  Mary Oliver

  Sweet, Lying, Sea

  Mary Oliver (2012). “A Thousand Mornings: Poems”, p.41, Penguin

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• Five per cent vision is better than no vision at all. Five per cent hearing is better than no hearing at all. Five per cent flight efficiency is better than no flight at all. It is thoroughly believable that every organ or apparatus that we actually see is the product of a smooth trajectory through animal space, a trajectory in which every intermediate stage assisted survival and reproduction.

  Richard Dawkins

  Science, Animal, Space

  Richard Dawkins (2015). “The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design”, p.96, W. W. Norton & Company

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• My body cheerfully informed me that he felt really good pressed against me like that, all hard muscles and smooth contours and ominous bulges. My body liked the air of barely leashed strength and caged mayhem he was giving off. My body thought he smelled really good, like heat and coffee and electricity. My body was going to get me killed.

  Karen Chance

  Coffee, Air, Giving

  Karen Chance (2013). “Tempt the Stars: A Cassie Palmer Novel”, p.44, Penguin

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• I gave my heart to the mountains the minute I stood beside this river with its spray in my face and watched it thunder into foam, smooth to green glass over sunken rocks, shatter to foam again. I was fascinated by how it sped by and yet was always there; its roar shook both the earth and me.

  Wallace Stegner

  Heart, Rivers, Glasses

  Wallace Stegner (2015). “The Sound of Mountain Water: The Changing American West”, p.35, Vintage

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• But what I really long to know you do not tell either: what you feel, although I've given you hints by the score of my regard. You like me. You wouldn't waste time or paper on a being you didn't like. But I think I've loved you since we met at your mother's funeral. I want to be with you forever and beyond, but you write that you are too young to marry or too old or too short or too hungry - until I crumple your letters up in despair, only to smooth them out again for a twelfth reading, hunting for hidden meanings.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Mother, Reading, Writing

  "Ella Enchanted". Book by Gail Carson Levine, 1997.

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