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• I then carefully searched through the pages until I was able to find the verse that was crystal clear... It read: "Rejoice always."

  Mary C. Neal

  God, Christian, Religious

  Mary C. Neal, M.D. (2012). “To Heaven and Back: A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again: A True Story”, p.93, WaterBrook

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• Later in the day, a second verse became clear to my vision. It read: "Pray without ceasing."

  Mary C. Neal

  God, Christian, Religious

  Mary C. Neal, M.D. (2012). “To Heaven and Back: A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again: A True Story”, p.94, WaterBrook

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• The last verse that became clear to my vision that day was this: "Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is the will of God's in Christ Jesus for you."

  Mary C. Neal

  God, Christian, Religious

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• We hardly know an instance of the strength and weakness of human nature so striking and so grotesque as the character of this haughty, vigilant, resolute, sagacious blue-stocking, half Mithridates and half Trissotin, bearing up against a world in arms, with an ounce of poison in one pocket and a quire of bad verses in the other.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Strength, Nature, Character

  "Frederick the Great". Book by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay, p. 90, 1842.

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• I'd been in a couple situations where I'd seen bands realize that they didn't have to get a good take in order to get something that sounded like a song. The musicians are there and they don't quite have it together, and then the engineer says, "Oh! That's okay, I'll just cut and paste the verse!"

  J. Robbins

  Song, Couple, Cutting

  "Burning Airlines". Interview with Camilo Arturo Leslie, pitchfork.com. February 1, 2001.

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• A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible.

  Victor Hugo

  Impossible, Absurd, Translations

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• I don't quite recollect how many tumblers of whiskey toddy each man drank after supper; but this I know, that about one o'clock in the morning, the baillie's grown-up son became insensible while attempting the first verse of 'Willie brewed a peck o' maut'; and he having been, for half an hour before, the only other man visible above the mahogany, it occurred to my uncle that it was almost time to think about going.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Morning, Uncles

  Charles Dickens (2016). “The Pickwick Papers: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.554, Pan Macmillan

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• Poetry speaks most effectively and inclusively (whether in free or formal verse) when it recognizes its connection - without apology - to its musical and ritualistic origins.

  Dana Gioia

  Art, Apology, Poetry

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• Thought must be hidden in the verse like nutritional virtue in a fruit.

  Paul Valery

  Art, Poetry, Fruit

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• Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse.

  Charles Churchill

  Poet, Rapture, Prose

  Charles Churchill (1774). “Works”, p.206

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• The dying swan, when years her temples pierce, In music-strains breathes out her life and verse, And, chanting her own dirge, tides on her wat'ry hearse.

  Phineas Fletcher

  Swans, Years, Dying

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• Walter [Cronkite] sang me a little sea chantey. The verse ended, 'Just watch your back with Dan [Rather], dear, just watch your back with Dan.'.

  Connie Chung

  Sea, Watches, Littles

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• Before verse can be human again it must learn to be brutal.

  John Millington Synge

  Poetry, Brutal, Humans

  John Millington Synge, Ann Saddlemyer (1998). “Playboy of the Western World and Other Plays”, p.10, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Part of the triumph of modernist poetry is, indeed, to have demonstrated the great extent to which verse can do without explicit meaning and yet not sacrifice anything essential to its effect as art. Here, as before, successful art can be depended upon to explain itself.

  Clement Greenberg

  Art, Sacrifice, Successful

  "Art and Culture: Critical Essays". Book by Clement Greenberg, "T.S. Eliot: A Book Review" (1950/1956), p. 244, 1961.

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• Jesus refers to the poor over and over again. There are 2,000 verses of Scripture that call upon us to respond to the needs of the poor. And yet, I find that when Christians talked about values in this last election that was not on the agenda, that was not a concern. If you were to get the voter guide of the Christian Coalition, that does not rate. They talk more about tax cuts for people who are wealthy than they do about helping poor people who are in desperate straits.

  Tony Campolo

  Christian, Jesus, Cutting

  "Meet Evangelist Tony Campolo" by John Oliver Mason, progressive.org. August 5, 2005.

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• The question, O me! so sad, recurring - What good amid these, O me, O life? That you are here - that life exists and identity, that the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.

  Walt Whitman

  Powerful, Dead Poets Society, Play

  Walt Whitman (2016). “Leaves of Grass”, p.261, Xist Publishing

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• Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture'.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Sleep, May, Architecture

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• First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.

  C. S. Lewis

  Writing, Order, Should Have

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• It is a commonplace that Racine is untranslatable. This is not because his verse is difficult, but because it is not.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Difficult, Commonplace

  Kenneth Rexroth, Bradford Morrow (1989). “More Classics Revisited”, p.54, New Directions Publishing

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• It is true Christians have done terrible things throughout history. But they've always been acting in opposition to their Christian faith. There are no New Testament verses that say, Kill unbelievers.

  Robert Jeffress

  Christian, Acting, Done

  "Witness in Texas pool party incident speaks out; Palin blasts media's Duggar double standard". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. June 8, 2015.

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• O ye dead Poets, who are living still Immortal in your verse, though life be fled, And ye, O living Poets, who are dead Though ye are living, if neglect can kill, Tell me if in the darkest hours of ill, With drops of anguish falling fast and red From the sharp crown of thorns upon your head, Ye were not glad your errand to fulfill?

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Fall, Crowns, Errands

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Favorite Poems”, p.100, Courier Corporation

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• The words that bore the deathless verse of Homer from bard to a group of fascinated hearers, and with whose fading sounds the poems passed beyond recall, are fixed on the printed page in a hundred tongues. They carry to a million eyes what once could reach but a hundred ears.

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  Eye, Ears, Pages

  Nicholas Murray Butler (1911). “Philosophy”

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• There is not less wit nor invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought. Cardinal du Perron has been heard to say that the happy application of a verse of Virgil has deserved a talent.

  Pierre Bayle

  Book, Firsts, Talent

  Pierre Bayle (1735). “The Dictionary Historical and Critical of Mr. Peter Bayle”, p.779

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• There is a verse [in the Koran] that says God swears by time. Anything you gain in life, you pay for with your time. Time is the most important thing that has been given to man.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Men, Design, Important

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• Happy who in his verse can gently steer, From grave to light, from pleasant to severe.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Happiness, Light, Graves

  "The Art of Poetry (Canto I)". Book by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, 1674.

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