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• Habit and imitation--there is nothing more perennial in us than these two. They are the source of all working, and all apprenticeship, of all practice, and all learning, in this world.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Practice, World, Imitation

  Thomas Carlyle (1862). “Past and Present: Chartism, and Sartor Resartus”, p.126

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• A friend of mine who writes history books said to me that he thought that the two creatures most to be pitied were the spider and the novelist - their lives hanging by a thread spun out of their own guts. But in some ways I think writers of fiction are the creatures most to be envied, because who else besides the spider is allowed to take that fragile thread and weave it into a pattern? What a gift of grace to be able to take the chaos from within and from it to create some semblance of order.

  Katherine Paterson

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• I write poems about relationships, love relationships, and I'm not able to do that all the time. I could go two years without writing poems, and then write a dozen. Having a novel to work on, with the intricate puzzle of character and plot to work out, is satisfying for the time there is no poetry.

  May Sarton

  Writing, Character, Years

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• The two kinds of people on earth are the people who lift and the people who lean.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  People, Earth, Kind

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox, “Which Are You?”

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• The place where two friends first met is sacred to them all through their friendship, all the more sacred as their friendship deepens and grows old.

  Phillips Brooks

  Friends, Sacred, Firsts

  Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: The candle of the Lord, and other sermons”

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• A friar who asks alms for God's sake begs for two.

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  Sake, Charity, Alms

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• Human beings, as far as I can tell, seem to be divided into two subspecies -- the resigned, who live in quiet desperation, and the exhausted, who exist in restless agitation.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Agitation, Exhausted, Quiet

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (1999). “Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self”, G K Hall & Company

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• Now, to tell my story--if not as it ought to be told, at least as I can tell it,--I must go back sixteen years, to the days when Whitbury boasted of forty coaches per diem, instead of one railway, and set forth how in its southern suburb, there stood two pleasant house side by side, with their gardens sloping down to the Whit, and parted from each other only by the high brick fruit-wall, through which there used to be a door of communication; for the two occupiers were fast friends.

  Charles Kingsley

  Wall, Book, Communication

  Charles Kingsley (1860). “Two years ago ... Third edition”, p.18

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• There are two kinds of pedestrians... the quick and the dead.

  Bill Vaughan

  Kind, Pedestrians

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• Religion is life, philosophy is thought; religion looks up, friendship looks in. We need both thought and life, and we need that the two shall be in harmony.

  James Freeman Clarke

  Philosophy, Religion, Needs

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• What writes worse than a Theodore Dreiser? ... Two Theodore Dreisers.

  Dorothy Parker

  Writing, Theodore

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• People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.

  Dorothy Parker

  People, Young, Ought

  Quoted in The Sayings of Dorothy Parker, ed. S. T. Brownlow (1992)

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• There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man--the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.

  Henry Fielding

  Heart, Men, Leaving

  Henry Fielding (1783). “The Beauties of Fielding. Carefully Selected ... To which is Added Some Account of His Life”, p.2

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• Affectation proceeds from one of these two causes,--vanity or hypocrisy; for as vanity puts us on affecting false characters, in order to purchase applause; so hypocrisy sets us on an endeavor to avoid censure, by concealing our vices under an appearance of their opposite virtues.

  Henry Fielding

  Character, Vanity, Order

  Henry Fielding (2013). “Joseph Andrews and Shamela”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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• Thou two-faced year, Mother of Change and Fate...

  Emma Lazarus

  Mother, Fate, Years

  Emma Lazarus (2014). “The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume II: Jewish Poems and Translations”, p.22, Courier Corporation

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• Our two first parents, yet the only two Of mankind, in the happy garden placed, Reaping immortal fruits of joy and love, Uninterrupted joy, unrivalled love In blissful solitude.

  John Milton

  Garden, Joy, Parent

  1665 Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.3, l.65-9.

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• We are all sure of two things, at least; we shall suffer and we shall all die.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Destiny, Suffering, Dies

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• We've lost half the summer sea ice in the Arctic. We've wiped out an enormous percentage of the world's coral reefs. We see huge changes in the planet's hydrology already, the cycles of drought and flood both amped up because warm air holds more water vapor than cold. These things are happening with a one-degree increase and going to two degrees won't be twice as bad, the increase in damage won't be linear, it most certainly will be exponential. So it was precisely the wrong moment to elect Trump.

  Bill McKibben

  Summer, Ice, Sea

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The soul awakes ... between two dim eternities - the eternal past, the eternal future.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Past, Soul, Eternity

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.236, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Class, Giving, World

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2010). “The Pearl of Orr's Island”, p.111, Applewood Books

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• ... the belief in a superstratum of human beings ... is the most evil of all beliefs. For when you say, 'I am not as other men' -- you have lost the two most valuable qualities we have ever tried to attain: -- humility and brotherhood.

  Agatha Christie

  Humility, Men, Evil

  Agatha Christie (1951). “Dame Agatha abroad”

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• But here's the sunset of a tedious day,
  These two asleep are; I'll but be undrest,
  And so to bed. Pray wish us all good rest.

  Robert Herrick

  Sunset, Wish, Bed

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• The duty of man is not a wilderness of turnpike gates, through which he is to pass by tickets from one to the other. It is plain and simple, and consists but of two points--his duty God, which every man must feel; and, with respect to his neighbor, to do as he would be done by.

  Thomas Paine

  Simple, Men, Would Be

  Thomas Paine (2016). “The Rights of Man”, p.40, Xist Publishing

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• The only real meaning in life can be found in a good man. And maybe Paris. Preferably the two together.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Real, Men, Paris

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• You can't do it all. No one can have two full-time jobs, have perfect children and cook three meals and be multi-orgasmic 'til dawn ... Superwoman is the adversary of the women's movement.

  Gloria Steinem

  Jobs, Children, Perfect

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