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• I shoot an arrow into the air, where it lands I do not care: I get my arrows wholesale!

  Curly Howard

  Air, Land, Care

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• True Love in this differs from gold and clay,
  That to divide is not to take away.
  Love is like understanding, that grows bright,
  Gazing on many truths; 'tis like thy light,
  Imagination! which from earth and sky,
  And from the depths of human phantasy,
  As from a thousand prisms and mirrors, fills
  The Universe with glorious beams, and kills
  Error, the worm, with many a sun-like arrow
  Of its reverberated lightning.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Life, Love Is, Errors

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.282

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• Take an arrow, and hold it in flame for the space of ten pulses, and when it cometh forth you shall find those parts of the arrow which were on the outsides of the flame more burned, blacked, and turned almost to coal, whereas the midst of the flame will be as if the fire had scarce touched it. This is an instance of great consequence for the discovery of the nature of flame; and sheweth manifestly, that flame burneth more violently towards the sides than in the midst.

  Francis Bacon

  Science, Flames, Space

  Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.145

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• Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Soul, Target

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• Thrice happy is that humble pair, Beneath the level of all care! Over whose heads those arrows fly, Of sad distrust and jealousy.

  Edmund Waller

  Humble, Levels, Care

  Edmund Waller, Elijah Fenton (1772). “The Works of Edmund Waller, Esq. in verse and prose. Published by Mr. Fenton. (Observations on some of Mr. Waller's poems.) L.P.”, p.53

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• Tis chastity, my brother, chastity; She that has that is clad in complete steel, And, like a quiver'd nymph with arrows keen, May trace huge forests, and unharbour'd heaths, Infamous hills, and sandy perilous wilds; Where, through the sacred rays of chastity, No savage fierce, bandite, or mountaineer, Will dare to soil her virgin purity.

  John Milton

  Brother, Nymphs, Sacred

  John Milton (1846). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Milton: With Explanatory Notes and a Life of the Author, by H. Stebbing. To which is Prefixed Dr. Channing's Essay on the Poetical Genius of Milton”, p.410

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• Every boy, in his journey to become a man, takes an arrow in the center of his heart, in the place of his strength. Because the wound is rarely discussed and even more rarely healed, every man carries a wound. And the wound is nearly always given by his father.

  John Eldredge

  Father, Heart, Boys

  John Eldredge (2011). “Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul”, p.62, Harper Collins

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• The feathered arrow of satire has oft been wet with the heart's blood of its victims.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Heart, Blood, Satire

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• The past is no more and the future is not yet. The only right person is one who lives moment to moment, whose arrow is directed to the moment, who is always here and now; wherever he is, his whole consciousness, his whole being, is involved in the reality of here and in the reality of now.

  Rajneesh

  Past, Reality, Eyelashes

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• The aim of talk should be like the aim of a flying arrow -- to hit the mark; but to this end there must be a mark to hit, that is, there must be a listener.

  Charles Dickens

  Flying, Listening, Ends

  charles dickens (1874). “all the year round”, p.179

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• some travelers are drawn forward by a goal lying before them in the way iron is drawn to the magnet. Others are driven on by a force lying behind them. In such a way the bowstring makes the arrow fly.

  Isak Dinesen

  Travel, Lying, Iron

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• A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savor of it. Let him act like the clever archers who, designing to hit the mark which yet appears too far distant, and knowing the limits to which the strength of their bow attains, take aim much higher than the mark, not to reach by their strength or arrow to so great a height, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim to hit the mark they wish to reach.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Strength, Wise, Hope

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.38, BookRix

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• Happiness is a bull's-eye, awaiting arrows of pain.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Pain, Eye, Bulls

  Ellen Hopkins (2015). “Smoke”, p.469, Simon and Schuster

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• Let your bending in the Archer's hand be for gladness, for even as he loves the arrow that flies, so he loves also the bow that is stable.

  Khalil Gibran

  Children, Archer, Hands

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• You'll never do anything creative, innovative or world changing if you fear criticism. Pioneers are easy targets for arrows!

  Rick Warren

  Creative, Criticism, Pioneers

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• Truth is as straight as an arrow, while a lie swivels like a snake.

  Suzy Kassem

  Lying, Snakes, Truth Is

  "Rise Up and Salute the Sun". Book by Suzy Kassem, 2010.

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• Brokenness is the bow from which God launches the arrow of healing.

  Louie Giglio

  Christian, Healing, Bows

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• If the errors of my life have profited me one great truth it is this: believe. Believe in your destiny and the star from which it shines. Believe you have been sent from God as an arrow pulled from his own bow. It is the single universal trait which the great of this earth have all shared, while the shadows are fraught with ghosts who roam the winds with mournful wails of regret on their lips. Believe as if your life depended upon it, for indeed it does.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Stars, Regret, Believe

  Richard Paul Evans (2000). “The Locket”, p.408, Simon and Schuster

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• The right art is purposeless, aimless! The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Art, Archery, Goal

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• Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.

  Ted Chiang

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wisdom

  Ted Chiang (2007). “The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate”, Subterranean

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• It's true: Everyone needs a reason to stay alive -- someone who justifies your existence. Someone who loves you. Not beyond all reason. Just loves you. Even just shows an interest. Even someone who doesn't exist, or isn't yours. No, no! They don't even have to love you! They just have to be there to love! Target for your arrows. Magnetic Pole to drag on your compass needle and stop it spinning and tell you where you're heading and...Someone to soak up all the yearning. That's what I think.

  Geraldine McCaughrean

  Love You, Thinking, Needs

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• I trim my opponents to fit my arrows.

  Karl Kraus

  Opponents, Fit

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black And the dark street winds and bends. Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow We shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow, And watch where the chalk-white arrows go To the place where the sidewalk ends.

  Shel Silverstein

  Nature, Flower, Dark

  Shel Silverstein, “Where The Sidewalk Ends”

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• Just so you know, I'm straight. Totally straight. As an arrow." Her voice held a smile. "So am I

  Carrie Vaughn

  Voice, Knows

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• Om is the bow, the arrow is soul.

  Hermann Hesse

  Soul, Bows

  Hermann Hesse (2016). “Siddhartha”, p.9, Jaico Publishing House

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