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• Age is a terrible thief. Just when you're getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back. It makes you ache and muddies your head and silently spreads cancer throughout your spouse.

  Sara Gruen

  Cancer, Elephants, Age

  Sara Gruen (2016). “The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House”, p.25, Hachette UK

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• All she saw, down in the cellar well beneath the stoop, was a light yellow feather with a tip of green. And she had never named him. Had called him "my parrot" all these years. "My parrot." "Love you. "Love you." Did the dogs get him? Or did he get the message - that she said, "My parrot" and he said, "Love you," and she had never said it back or even taken the trouble to name him - and manage somehow to fly away on wings that had not soared for six years.

  Toni Morrison

  Dog, Love You, Taken

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• No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.

  James Dobson

  Children, Men, Helping

  James C. Dobson (2003). “The Wonderful World of Boys”, Tyndale House Pub

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• Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

  William Wordsworth

  Positive, Weed, Wisdom

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• When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.

  Barbra Streisand

  Girl, Father, Kids

  "The Piers Morgan Tonight Show", transcripts.cnn.com. December 23, 2012.

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• When I was a kid, Halloween was strictly a starchy-vegetable-only holiday, with pumpkins and Indian corn on the front stoop; there was nothing electric, nothing inflatable, nothing with latex membranes or strobes.

  Susan Orlean

  Halloween, Holiday, Kids

  "Haunted" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. October 27, 2010.

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• He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter.

  Jose Marti

  Torches, Pairs, Could Have Been

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• When I was a kid I'd practise Chopin on piano - and I love Chopin! He's my dawg! Then I'd go out on the stoop and blast the radio. I'm from New York, the concrete jungle. Hip-hop influenced me from day one.

  Alicia Keys

  New York, Kids, Piano

  "I love Chopin. He's my dawg". Interview with Ian Gittins, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2001.

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• To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Inspirational, Time, Character

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• When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Love, Art, Betrayal

  The Vicar of Wakefield ch. 29 (1766)

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• His brow is seamed with line and scar; His cheek is red and dark as wine; The fires as of a Northern star Beneath his cap of sable shine. His right hand, bared of leathern glove, Hangs open like an iron gin, You stoop to see his pulses move, To hear the blood sweep out and in. He looks some king, so solitary In earnest thought he seems to stand, As if across a lonely sea He gazed impatient of the land. Out of the noisy centuries The foolish and the fearful fade; Yet burn unquenched these warrior eyes, Time hath not dimmed, nor death dismayed.

  Walter de La Mare

  Lonely, Kings, Stars

  Walter De la Mare (1920). “Collected Poems, 1901-1918”

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• Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Punishment, Given, Dare

  1866 Crime and Punishment, pt.5, ch.4 (translated by David Magarshak).

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• Great little One! whose all-embracing birth
  Lifts Earth to Heaven, stoops Heaven to Earth.

  Richard Crashaw

  Funny, Christmas, Heaven

  Richard Crashaw (1858). “Complete works”, p.40

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• Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. For jealous people, like dope-fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only disgust and loathing.

  Emma Goldman

  Love, Jealousy, Dope

  Emma Goldman (1998). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”

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• In time the savage bull sustains the yoke; In time all haggard hawks will stoop to lure; In time small wedges cleave the hardest oak, In time the flint is pierced with softest shower, And she in time will fall from her disdain, And rue the sufferance of your friendly pain.

  Thomas Kyd

  Time, Pain, Fall

  c.1589 The Spanish Tragedy, act 2, sc.1.

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• I am too busy with my cause to hate too absorbed in something bigger than myself. I have no time to quarrel, no time for regrets and no man can force me to stoop low enough to hate him.

  Lawrence James

  Regret, Hate, Anger

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• I dislike boats," Ragnor observed, looking around. "I get vilely seasick." The turning green joke was too easy. Magnus was not going to stoop to make it.

  Cassandra Clare

  Green, Boat, Easy

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson (2015). “The Bane Chronicles”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• That porch is a happy-looking place, and my father - burdened, stoop-shouldered, cadaverously thin - doesn't seem to belong on it.

  Margaret Haddix

  Father, Porch, Seems

  Margaret Peterson Haddix (2008). “Double Identity”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• He that will not stoop for a pin will never be worth a pound.

  Samuel Pepys

  Pounds, Classroom, Pins

  Samuel Pepys (1858). “Diary and Correspondence: The Diary deciphered by the K. J. Smith from the original Shorthand Ms. in the Pepysian Library. With a life and notes by Richard Lord Braybrooke. In four volumes”, p.341

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• No one sits on the stoop when she's a kid and thinks, 'I want to be a biographer when I grow up,'

  Stacy Schiff

  Growing Up, Kids, Thinking

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• Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise.

  Philip Massinger

  Wise, Fall, Soar

  1623 The Duke of Milan, act1, sc.2.

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• At the last minute, I couldn't wear the Hitler mustache because Tiger Stripe ate it; and then I didn't want to take my kitty and risk his coughing up some big Nazi hairball on someone's front stoop.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Mustache, Risk, Stripes

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• But let me see thee stoop from heaven on wings That fill the sky with silver glitterings!

  John Keats

  Sky, Wings, Heaven

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley (1829). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats. Complete in One Volume”

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• Oh, the stoop of the Redeemer's amazing love! Let us, henceforth, contend how low we can go side by side with Him, but remember when we have gone to the lowest He descends lower still, so that we can truly feel that the very lowest place is too high for us, because He has gone lower still.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Amazing Love, Gone, Sides

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• The wind sounds like a silver wire, And from beyond the noon a fire Is pour'd upon the hills, and nigher The skies stoop down in their desire; And, isled in sudden seas of light, My heart, pierced thro' with fierce delight, Bursts into blossom in his sight.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Heart, Fire, Light

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.295, Delphi Classics

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