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• Birds buildbut not I build; no, but strain, Time's eunuch, and not breed one work that wakes. Mine,O thou lord of life, send my roots rain.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Time, Rain, Roots

  'Thou art indeed just, Lord' (written 1889)

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• You say that love is nonsense. I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.

  Henry Adams

  Love, Broken Heart, Pain

  Henry Adams (2015). “Democracy: An American Novel!”, p.168, eKitap Projesi (PublishDrive)

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• The height of artistic skill is to know how to conceal the mechanical effort and strain beneath harmonious calm.

  August Bournonville

  Dance, Skills, Effort

  August Bournonville (1979). “My theatre life”, Wesleyan

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• Freedom is a hard-bought thing and millions are in chains, but they strain toward the new day drawing near.

  Paul Robeson

  Freedom, Drawing, New Day

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• Our aim in education is to give a full life. We owe it to them to initiate an immense number of interests. Life should be all living, and not merely a tedious passing of time; not all doing or all feeling or all thinking - the strain would be too great - but, all living; that is to say, we should be in touch wherever we go, whatever we hear, whatever we see, with some manner of vital interest.

  Charlotte Mason

  Learning, Thinking, Numbers

  Charlotte Mason (2013). “School Education”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Song, Add

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Poetry and Imagination”, p.42, Editora Dracaena

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• We ring the bells and we raise the strain
  We hang up garlands everywhere
  And bid the tapers twinkle fair,
  And feast and frolic - and then we go
  Back to the same old lives again.

  Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

  Christmas, Bells, Garlands

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• Freedom from worries and surcease from strain are illusions that always inhabit the distance.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Distance, Worry, Illusion

  Edwin Way Teale (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp

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• Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system, and drives many elderly people into poverty and despair. Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.

  Claude Pepper

  Retirement, Security Systems, Elderly

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• Nothing is so beautiful as spring- When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring The ear, it strikes like lightnings to hear him sing; The glassy peartree leaves and blooms, they brush The descending blue; that blue is all in a rush With richness; the racing lambs too have fair their fling. What is all this juice and all this joy? A strain of the earth's sweet being in the beginning In Eden garden.-Have, get, before it cloy.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Beautiful, Weed, Sweet

  'Spring' (written 1877)

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• What is all this juice and all this joy?
  A strain of the earth's sweet being in the beginning
  In Eden garden.-Have, get, before it cloy,
  Before it cloud, Christ, lord, and sour with sinning,
  Innocent mind and Mayday in girl and boy,
  Most, O maid's child, thy choice and worthy the winning.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Girl, Sweet, Children

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)”, p.1887, Delphi Classics

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• When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and suddenly nothing will go quite as you wish it is then that you must not hesitate.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Morning, Determination, Giving

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• People are subject to moods, to temptations and fears, lethargy and aberration and ignorance, and the staunchest qualities shift under the stresses and strains of daily life.

  Ilka Chase

  Stress, Ignorance, People

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• Unity, to be real, must stand the severest strain without breaking.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Real, Kwanzaa, Community

  Mahatma Gandhi (1949). “Communal Unity”

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• He strains his conversation through a cigar.

  Hamilton Wright Mabie

  Sarcastic, Cigar, Conversation

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• Goals should always be made to a point that will make us reach and strain.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Goal, Made, Should

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• The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.

  Ezra Pound

  Writing, Secret, Lap

  Ezra Pound, Michael Dirda (2010). “ABC of Reading”, p.6, New Directions Publishing

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• Hostility towards Microsoft is not difficult to find on the Net, and it blends two strains: resentful people who feel Microsoft is too powerful, and disdainful people who think it's tacky. This is all strongly reminiscent of the heyday of Communism and Socialism, when the bourgeoisie were hated from both ends: by the proles, because they had all the money, and by the intelligentsia, because of their tendency to spend it on lawn ornaments. Microsoft is the very embodiment of modern high-tech prosperity - it is, in a word, bourgeois - and so it attracts all of the same gripes.

  Neal Stephenson

  Powerful, Thinking, Two

  "In the Beginning... Was the Command Line". Book by Neal Stephenson, November 9, 1999.

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• You don't realize what a strain it is on the nerves to write or think-of-writing all day long, and to sleep full of nervous dreams, and to wake up not knowing who one is: this all stems from anxiety about finishing the book, about time 'growing short', etc., and the perpetual strain of invention.

  Jack Kerouac

  Dream, Book, Writing

  Jack Kerouac (2004). “Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947-1954”, Viking Press

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• We strain to tell Americans and aliens in this country that there's nothing unique about America, nothing unique about American civilization, nothing that requires their allegiance, nothing of great value that they should sacrifice for.

  Tom Tancredo

  Country, Sacrifice, Unique

  Interview with John Hawkins, rightwingnews.com. February 26, 2012.

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• There was a great strain in our family because my father didn't want anything to do with me. He was happy to see my brother and sister, but not me. I don't know why. Maybe it was shame. I don't know. But he never wanted anything to do with me. That rejection was terribly hurtful and it went on for years.

  Carol Vorderman

  Brother, Father, Years

  "Carol Vorderman: My family values". Interview with Nick McGrath, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2011.

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• I find as a viewer, when I go to see comedies, the strain to be funny throughout the whole thing. I start to lose my sense of reality, and it ends up feeling like an empty experience; there's funny stuff in it but I've lost the emotional connection to the characters because it's just so bananas.

  Mike White

  Character, Reality, Emotional

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• Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Fool, Doe

  Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.222

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• I did not write it [Coming of Age in Samoa] as a popular book, but only with the hope that it would be intelligible to those who might make the best use of its theme, that adolescence need not be the time of stress and strain which Western society made it; that growing up could be freer and easier and less complicated; and also that there were prices to pay for the very lack of complication I found in Samoa - less intensity, less individuality, less involvement with life.

  Margaret Mead

  Growing Up, Stress, Book

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• One reads the truer deeper facts of Reconstruction with a great despair. It is at once so simple and human, and yet so futile. There is no villain, no idiot, no saint. There are just men; men who crave ease and power, men who know want and hunger, men who have crawled. They all dream and strive with ecstasy of fear and strain of effort, balked of hope and hate. Yet the rich world is wide enough for all, wants all, needs all. So slight a gesture, a word, might set the strife in order, not with full content, but with growing dawn of fulfillment. Instead roars the crash of hell.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Dream, Hate, Simple

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2013). “Black Reconstruction in America: Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880”, p.650, Transaction Publishers

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