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• Mental stains can not be removed by time, nor washed away by any waters.
  [Lat., Animi labes nec diuturnitate vanescere nec omnibus ullis elui potest.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Water, Wickedness, Can Not

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• Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose, keep in touch (or don't), care about birthdays, waste and lose time, brush their teeth, feel nostalgia, scrub stains, have religions and political parties and laws, wear keepsakes, apologize years after an offense, whisper, fear themselves, interpret dreams, hide their genitalia, shave, bury time capsules, and can choose not to eat something for reasons of conscience. The justifications for eating animals and for not eating them are often identical: we are not them.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Dream, Children, Party

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, November 2, 2009.

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• Happy is the man who renounces everything which may bring a stain or burden upon his conscience

  Thomas a Kempis

  Men, May, He Man

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• "Out, damned spot!" That is the true cry of human nature. That stain cannot be removed without blood and that which is infinitely more, and deeper, and profounder, and more terrible than blood, of which blood is but the symbol - the suffering of Deity.

  G. Campbell Morgan

  Blood, Suffering, Deities

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• What happens in a certain place can stain your feelings for that location, just as ink can stain a white sheet.

  Daniel Handler

  White, Feelings, Ink

  "Horesradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid". Book by Daniel Handler, April 24, 2007.

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• We're living in world, stars and dust Between heaven 'n all that surrounds us We're travellers here, spirits passing through And the love we give, is all that will endure Just like a rose after the rain Something beautiful remains Tears will leave no stains Time will ease the pain For every life that fades Something beautiful remains

  Tina Turner

  Beautiful, Stars, Pain

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• Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wine, Weather, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Emerson: Poems”, p.36, Everyman's Library

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• When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.

  Berthold Auerbach

  Character

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• My mother moves so fast I do not even see it coming. But she slaps my face hard enough to make my head snap backward. She leaves a print that stains me long after it’s faded. Just so you know: shame is five-fingered.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Moving, Long

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• Words are such small things, like confetti in the brain, and yet they are color and clarify everything, they can stain the mind or warp the feelings.

  Diane Ackerman

  Color, Feelings, Brain

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “One Hundred Names for Love: A Memoir”, p.149, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Stain my eyes as I may, on all sides all is black.

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Eye, Black, May

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• What is birth to a man if it shall be a stain to his dead ancestors to have left such an offspring?

  Philip Sidney

  Men, Ancestry, Birth

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.3

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• It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of dignity.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Crush, Flower, Envy

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• If it be you that stirs these daughters' hearts
  Against their father, fool me not so much
  To bear it tamely; touch me with noble anger,
  And let not women's weapons, water drops,
  Stain my man's cheeks.

  William Shakespeare

  Daughter, Father, Anger

  William Shakespeare (2009). “King Lear”, p.74, Palgrave Macmillan

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• Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease-spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can. We patch and tinker more than we renew. The novelty soaks in; it stains the ancient mass; but it is also tinged by what absorbs it.

  William James

  History, Grease, Mind

  William James (2015). “Pragmatism and the Conception of Thruth”, p.134, William James

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• Money is neither god nor devil, that it should make one noble and another vile. It is an accident, and if honestly possessed, may pass from you to me, or from me to you, without a stain.

  Anthony Trollope

  Devil, Noble, May

  Anthony Trollope (2014). “Phineas Finn: The Irish Member”, p.578, Simon and Schuster

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• The sex that is presented to us in everyday culture feels strange to me; its images are fragments, lifeless, removed from normal experience. Real sex, the sex in our cells and in the space between our neurons, leaks out and gets into things and stains our vision and colors our lives.

  Sallie Tisdale

  Sex, Real, Cells

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• Happiness is getting a brown gravy stain on a brown dress.

  Totie Fields

  Happiness, Dresses, Brown

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• What is working stain, does not soil.

  Edmondo De Amicis

  Doe, Soil

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• Like the stain'd web that whitens in the sun, grow pure by being purely shone upon.

  Thomas Moore

  Sun, Chastity, Grows

  Thomas Moore (1826). “The poetical Works”, p.27

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• Oh Lord, purify my soul from all its stains. Warm my heart with the love of thee, animate my sluggish nature and fix my inconstancy, and volatility, that I may not be weary in well doing.

  William Wilberforce

  Heart, Soul, May

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• You can accept or reject the way you are treated by other people, but until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed. You can bandage the bleeding with food, with alcohol, with drugs, with work, with cigarettes, with sex, but eventually, it will all ooze through and stain your life. You must find the strength to open the wounds, stick your hands inside, pull out the core of the pain that is holding you in your past, the memories, and make peace with them.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Sex, Pain, Memories

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• If a white cloth is stained even with a small spot, the stain appears very ugly indeed. So the smallest fault of a holy man becomes painfully prominent.

  Ramakrishna

  Men, White, Ugly

  "Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna", p. 299, 1960.

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• There is rust in my mouth,the stain of an old kiss.

  Anne Sexton

  Kissing, Rust, Mouths

  Anne Sexton (1976). “45 Mercy Street”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• We tilt our heads back and open wide. The snow drifts into our zombie mouths crawling with grease and curses and tobacco flakes and cavities and boyfriend/girlfriend juice, the stain of lies. For one moment we are not failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds. For one breath everything feels better. Then it melts. The bus drivers rev their engines and the ice cloud shatters. Everyone shuffles forward. They don't know what just happened. They can't remember.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Cheating, Girlfriend, Lying

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