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• Man is a free moral agent and can be magnanimous and deal disinterestedly, humanity is a definite goal, social justice is desirable and possible, individual lives may be gloriously diversified, uniquely individualized, and yet socially useful; or, these are mere phrases, snares to catch gulls, soothing syrup for our troubled souls.

  George Amos Dorsey

  Men, Justice, Goal

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• The bait is the means to get the fish where you want it, catch the fish and you forget the bait. The snare is the means to get the rabbit where you want it, catch the rabbit and forget the snare. Words are the means to get the idea where you want it, catch on to the idea and you forget about the words. Where shall I find a man who forgets about words, and have a word with him?

  Zhuangzi

  Creativity, Mean, Men

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• False as the fowler's artful snare.

  Tobias Smollett

  Falsehood

  Samuel Johnson, Thomas Parnell, Thomas Gray, Tobias Smollett, George Gilfillan (1855). “The Poetical Works of Johnson: Parnell, Gray, and Smollett, with Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes”, p.251

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• Resentment is when you allow what’s eating you to eat you up. Revenge is the raging fire that consumes the arsonist. Bitterness is the trap that snares the hunter. And mercy is the choice that can set them all free.

  Max Lucado

  Revenge, Fire, Choices

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• And what if thou, sweet May, hast known
  Mishap by worm and blight;
  If expectations newly blown
  Have perished in thy sight;
  If loves and joys, while up they sprung,
  Were caught as in a snare;
  Such is the lot of all the young,
  However bright and fair.

  William Wordsworth

  Sweet, Sight, Expectations

  William Wordsworth (2009). “The Poems of William Wordsworth: Collected Reading Texts from the Cornell Wordsworth Series”, p.599, Humanities-Ebooks

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• But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.

  Umberto Eco

  Purpose, Stories, World

  Umberto Eco (2006). “The Island of the Day Before”, p.95, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I have not loved the world, nor the world me, but let us part fair foes; I do believe, though I have found them not, that there may be words which are things, hopes which will not deceive, and virtues which are merciful, or weave snares for the failing: I would also deem o'er others' griefs that some sincerely grieve; that two, or one, are almost what they seem, that goodness is no name, and happiness no dream.

  Lord Byron

  Dream, Grief, Believe

  LORD BYRON. (1819). “CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE”, p.62

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• What sounds good on the radio is really loud kick drums and loud snare drums, when everything's bombastic and in your face. It's the equivalent of a houseguest who screams all the time.

  Moby

  Sound, Radio, Faces

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• My brain more busy than the labouring spider Weaves tedious snares to trap mine enemies.

  William Shakespeare

  Brain, Enemy, Spiders

  William Shakespeare (1790). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes”, p.547

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• Status ought not to be measured by a woman's ability to attract and snare a man.

  Germaine Greer

  Men, Ability, Ought

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• Gone were but the Winter,
  Come were but the Spring,
  I would go to a covert
  Where the birds sing;
  
  Where in the whitethorn
  Singeth a thrush,
  And a robin sings
  In the holly-bush.
  
  Full of fresh scents
  Are the budding boughs
  Arching high over
  A cool green house:
  
  Full of sweet scents,
  And whispering air
  Which sayeth softly:
  We spread no snare;
  
  Here dwell in safety,
  Here dwell alone,
  With a clear stream
  And a mossy stone.
  
  Here the sun shineth
  Most shadily;
  Here is heard an echo
  Of the far sea,
  Though far off it be.

  Christina Rossetti

  Sweet, Spring, Winter

  Christina Rossetti (2008). “Poems and Prose”, p.11, OUP Oxford

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• There is oftentimes a great deal of knowledge where there is but little wisdom to improve that knowledge. It is not the most knowing Christian but the most wise Christian that sees, avoids, and escapes Satan's snares. Knowledge without wisdom is like mettle in a blind horse, which is often an occasion of the rider's fall.

  Thomas Brooks

  Christian, Wise, Horse

  Thomas Brooks (1799). “Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices, Being a Companion for Christians of All Denominations”, p.218

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• And as she jogged out of sight, they could hear her muttering, "Tentacula. Devil's Snare. And Snargaluff pods. Yes, I'd like to see Death Eaters fighting those.

  J. K. Rowling

  Fighting, Death Eaters, Sight

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• The queen!" someone shouted in alarm, and the King erupted like a wild animal caught in a snare.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Kings, Queens, Animal

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• I like loud snare, and I like really treble-y guitars, and that's just never going to change.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Guitar, Loud

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• Venus in Furs has caught his soul in the red snares of hair. He will paint her, and go mad.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Hair, Mad, Soul

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• Then the musical instruments appeared. Dad’s snare drum from the house, Henry’s guitar from his car, Adam’s spare guitar from my room. Everyone was jamming together, singing songs: Dad’s songs, Adam’s songs, old Clash songs, old Wipers songs. Teddy was dancing around, the blond of his hair reflecting the golden flames. I remember watching it all and getting that tickling in my chest and thinking to myself: This is what happiness feels like.

  Gayle Forman

  Song, Dad, Thinking

  Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.107, Penguin

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• She knew this man's smile, his gentle ways of love, but not his godlike fury in the storm. She might snare him in a fragile net of music, love and flowers, but, at each departure, he would break forth without, it seemed to her, the least regret.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Regret, Flower, Men

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• To represent a bad thing in its least offensive light is, doubtless, the most agreeable course for a writer of fiction to pursue; but is it the most honest, or the safest? Is it better to reveal the snares and pitfalls of like to the young and thoughtless traveller, or to cover them with branches and flowers? Oh, reader! if there were less of this delicate concealment of facts--this whispering "Peace, peace," when there is no peace, there would be less of sin and misery to the young of both sexes who are left to wring their bitter knowledge from experience.

  Anne Bronte

  Sex, Flower, Light

  Anne Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte (2014). “The Complete Novels Of The Bronte Sisters: Seven-Book Bundle”, p.244, Harper Collins

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• I could have told him that nothing was safe and that no matter how careful you were and how hard you tried, there were still accidents, hidden traps, and snares. You could get killed on an airplane or crossing the street. Your marriage could fall apart when you weren't looking; your husband could lose his job; our baby could get sick or die.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Baby, Jobs, Husband

  Jennifer Weiner (2006). “Little Earthquakes”, p.509, Simon and Schuster

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• The zazen I speak of is not learning meditation. It is simply the Dharma gate of repose and bliss, the practice-realization of totally culminated enlightenment. It is the manifestation of ultimate reality. Traps and snares can never reach it. Once its heart is grasped, you are like the dragon when he gains the water, like the tiger when she enters the mountain. For you must know that just there (in zazen) the right Dharma is manifesting itself and that, from the first, dullness and distraction are struck aside.

  Dogen

  Heart, Reality, Dragons

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• Life's journey is not traveled on a freeway devoid of obstacles, pitfalls, and snares. Rather, it is a pathway marked by forks and turnings. Decisions are constantly before us. To make them wisely, courage is needed: the courage to say, 'No,' the courage to say, 'Yes.' Decisions do determine destiny. The call for courage comes constantly to each of us. It has ever been so, and so shall it ever be.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Courage, Journey, Destiny

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• I've wanted to be a drummer since I was about five years old. I used to play on a bath salt container with wires on the bottom, and on a round coffee tin with a loose wire fixed to it to give a snare drum effect. Plus there were always my Mum's pots and pans. When I was ten, my Mum bought me a snare drum. My Dad bought me my first full drum kit when I was 15. It was almost prehistoric. Most of it was rust.

  John Bonham

  Dad, Coffee, Years

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• A day to God is a thousand years,
  Men walk around with a thousand fears.
  The true joy of love brings a thousand tears,
  In the world of desire, there's a thousand snares.

  RZA

  Love, God, Song

  Song: A Day To God Is 1000 Years

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• I feel like a drummer with no sticks and somebody keeps farting on my snare drum.

  Anthony Langston

  Drunk, Sticks, Drummer

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