Worn Quotes

• Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Family, Mothers Day, Mom

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• Translate a book a dozen times from one language to another, and what becomes of its style? Most books would be worn out and disappear in this ordeal. The pen which wrote it is soon destroyed, but the poem survives.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Style, Would Be

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.272, Simon and Schuster

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• ... continual hard labor deadens the energies of the soul, and benumbs the faculties of the mind; the ideas become confined, the mind barren, and, like the scorching sands of Arabia, produces nothing; or, like the uncultivated soil, brings forth thorns and thistles. Again, continual hard labor irritates our tempers and sours our dispositions; the whole system become worn out with toil and fatigue; nature herself becomes almost exhausted, and we care but little whether we live or die.

  Maria W. Stewart

  Ideas, Soul, Mind

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• Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

  Iris Murdoch

  Italian, Shoes, Boots

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• Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned or worn.

  Denis Waitley

  Happy, Gratitude, Grateful

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• A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

  Robert Frost

  Successful, Law, Feet

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• Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Life, Death, Suicide

  FaceBook post by Hunter S. Thompson from Nov 01, 2015

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• Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.

  Denis Waitley

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Baby, Shoes

  "10 works of literature that were really hard to write" by Mark Juddery, www.cnn.com. January 16, 2011.

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• To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence. He is struggling against vagueness, against obscurity, against the lure of the decorative adjective, against the encroachment of Latin and Greek, and, above all, against the worn-out phrases and dead metaphors with which the language is cluttered up.

  George Orwell

  Art, Latin, Struggle

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• The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.

  Terry Southern

  Writing, Important, Capacity

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• This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Life, True Joy

  Man and Superman epistle dedicatory (1903)

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• To be worn out is to be renewed.

  Laozi

  Worn Out

  Laozi (2008). “Daodejing: A Literal-critical Translation”, University Press of Amer

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• If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.

  Ezra Pound

  Errors, Essentials, Literature

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• Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Travel, Adventure, Journey

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Motivational, Change, Success

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.

  Jean Cocteau

  Funny, Hilarious, Sexy

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• Believe that you can run farther or faster. Believe that you're young enough, old enough, strong enough, and so on to accomplish everything you want to do. Don't let worn-out beliefs stop you from moving beyond yourself.

  John Bingham

  Running, Strong, Believe

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• When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Change, Men, Views

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2013). “Poems of Ella Wheeler Wilcox: Passion”, p.54, eBookIt.com

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• Even sound seemed to fail in this air, like the air was worn out with carrying sounds so long.

  William Faulkner

  Air, Long, Sound

  William Faulkner “The Sound and the Fury”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The corals do not look much worn, but still appear to have been dead. There are some delicate shells of molluscs from depths beyond 500 fathoms, where they were certainly living.

  Edward Forbes

  Depth, Looks, Shells

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• Precious attribute of woe-worn humanity! that can snatch ecstatic emotion, even from under the very share and harrow, that ruthlessly ploughs up and lays waste every hope.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Grief, Humanity, Despair

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1826). “The last man, by the author of Frankenstein”, p.158

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• I prefer to leave a little room in my bag to grab goodies when I'm travelling, but otherwise you need one good pair of shoes that can be worn day or night, a pair of black jeans, and a nice dress.

  Dree Hemingway

  Nice, Night, Jeans

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• Scots are born exiles, and Scotland the perfect country to be exiled from. Do not imagine that I am running down Scotland. Far from it. ... No, what I mean is that Scotland's beauties, though undeniable, are obvious ones, easy to carry in the heart, easy even to describe to the benighted members of less fortunate races. Lakes, islands and mountains, heather and rowan, broad straths and narrow glens - these are jewels easily worn in the memory.

  Jan Struther

  Running, Country, Memories

  Jan Struther (1956). “A pocketful of pebbles”

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