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• Love is on the verge of hate each time it stoops for pardon.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Hate, Love Is, Pardon

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• If angels stoop from visions of more than earthly beauty to spells of less than earthly worth, they are but fallen angels, mingling divine utterances with the babblings of madness, and the madness is not the divineness.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Angel, Vision, Utterance

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• It is a poor thing to strike our colors to God when the ship is going down under us; a poor thing to come to Him as a last resort, to offer up 'our own' when it is no longer worth keeping. If God were proud He would hardly have us on such terms: but He is not proud, He stoops to conquer, He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything else to Him.

  C. S. Lewis

  Color, Lasts, Ships

  "The Problem of Pain". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1940.

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• He has created the poor savage with no guide but natural law, and it is to their hearts that He deigns to stoop. They are His wild flowers whose homeliness delights Him.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Flower, Heart, Law

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• I think when you're in love with someone, it reveals a lot about yourself. You either rise to your highest highs or you stoop to your lowest lows.

  Joy Bryant

  Thinking, Lows, About Yourself

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• It is the Lord's kindness that he will take the scum off us in the fire. Who know how needful winnowing is to us and what dross we have before we enter the kingdom of God? So narrow is the entry to heaven that our knots, lumps of pride, self-love, idol-love, and world-love must be hammered off us, that we may stoop low and creep through into that narrow entry.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Kindness, Pride, Self

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• I dont think a really good pie can be made without a dozen or so children peeking over your shoulder as you stoop to look in at it every little while.

  John Gould

  Children, Food, Thinking

  John Gould (2015). “The House That Jacob Built”, p.124, Down East Books

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• If we condone torture, we yield the moral high ground to our enemies and encourage anyone who hates us to stoop to using that subhuman level against us. We reap whatever we sow.

  Rick Warren

  Hate, Yield, Moral High Ground

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• I feel that America is like a child that grew up so strong and so fast and so tall that it became self-conscious about its size and started to stoop over so as not to offend anyone.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Strong, Children, Self

  "New again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 2, 2015..

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• I grew up in New York City, where we played highly unorganized sports: stick ball, stoop ball, and the occasional game of baseball with no adult supervision.

  Jeff Greenfield

  Sports, Baseball, New York

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• I heard the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through her marble halls! I saw her sable skirts all fringed with light From the celestial walls! I felt her presence, by its spell of might, Stoop o'er me from above; The calm, majestic presence of the Night, As of the one I love.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Wall, Night, Light

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.2

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• We are Wikipedians. This means that we should be: kind, thoughtful, passionate about getting it right, open, tolerant of different viewpoints, open to criticism, bold about changing our policies and also cautious about changing our policies. We are not vindictive, childish, and we don't stoop to the level of our worst critics, no matter how much we may find them to be annoying.

  Jimmy Wales

  Mean, Thoughtful, Criticism

  Wikipedia-l mailing list, December 18, 2005.

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• We live in our own world , A world that is too small For you to stoop and enter Even on hands and knees, The adult subterfuge.

  R. S. Thomas

  Hands, Adults, World

  R.S. Thomas (2012). “Collected Poems: 1945-1990 R.S.Thomas: Collected Poems : R S Thomas”, p.57, Hachette UK

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• In this country, some aristocratic families automatically categorize persons with dark skin, thick lips, and kinky hair as "Barias" [Amharic for slave]... let it be clear to everybody that I shall soon make these ignoramuses stoop and grind corn!

  Mengistu Haile Mariam

  Country, Dark, Hair

  "Mengistu Haile Mariam: The Profile of a Dictator". Ethiopian Review, February 1994.

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• Our happiness often depends upon social hypocrisies to which we will never stoop.

  Honore de Balzac

  Happiness, Hypocrisy, Social

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• From generation to generation, lights are extinguished and darkness threatens until some one stoops to bear the torch.

  Laurence Overmire

  Light, Darkness, Torches

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• We imagine much more appropriately an artisan on his toilet seat or on his wife than a great president, venerable by his demeanorand his ability. It seems to us that they do not stoop from their lofty thrones even to live.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Imagination, Wife, President

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.615, Stanford University Press

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• You are young and have the world before you; stoop as you go through it, and you will miss many hard bumps.

  Cotton Mather

  Missing, Bumps, World

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• The Good and Great must ever shun
  That reckless and abandoned one
  Who stoops to perpetrate a pun.

  Lewis Carroll

  Reckless, Abandoned, Pun

  Lewis Carroll (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)”, p.1695, Delphi Classics

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• When one is the agent of order and civilisation in the universe, one doesn't stoop to negotiate. Especially with nonhumans.

  Ann Leckie

  Order, Agents, Civilisation

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• If God calls you to be a minister, don't stoop to becoming a king.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Kings, Becoming, Ministers

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• Reformers have long observed city people loitering on busy corners, hanging around in candy stores and bars and drinking soda popon stoops, and have passed a judgment, the gist of which is: "This is deplorable! If these people had decent homes and a more private or bosky outdoor place, they wouldn't be on the street!" That judgment represents a profound misunderstanding of cities. It makes no more sense than to drop in at a testimonial banquet in a hotel and conclude that if these people had wives who could cook, they would give their parties at home.

  Jane Jacobs

  Party, Drinking, Home

  Jane Jacobs (1989). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, Vintage

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• I am a member of this body. Therefore, sir, I shall neither fawn nor cringe before any party, nor stoop to beg . . . I am here to demand my rights, and to hurl thunderbolts at the men who would dare to cross the threshold of my manhood.

  Henry McNeal Turner

  Party, Men, Rights

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• When lovely woman stoops to folly and Paces about her room again, alone, She smooths her hair with automatic hand, And puts a record on the gramophone.

  T. S. Eliot

  Hair, Hands, Lovely

  The Waste Land l. 253 (1922)

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• A prince who loves and fears religion is a lion who stoops to the hand that strokes or to the voice that appeases him. He who fears and hates religion is like the savage beast that growls and bites the chain, which prevents his flying on the passenger. He who has no religion at all is that terrible animal who perceives his liberty only when he tears in pieces, and when he devours.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Hate, Animal, Hands

  Charles de Secondat Montesquieu, baron de, Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu (2005). “The Spirit of Laws”, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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