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• And I will now rock the brown basin from side to side so that my ships may ride the waves. Some will founder. Some will dash themselves against the cliffs. One sails alone. That is my ship. It sails into icy caverns where the sea-bear barks and stalactites swing green chairs. The waves rise, their crests curl; look at the lights on the mastheads. They have scattered, they have foundered, all except my ship which mounts the wave and sweeps before the gale and reaches the islands where the parrots chatter and then the creepers.

  Virginia Woolf

  Light, Rocks, Swings

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1307, Delphi Classics

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• We have a really, really great dog. It doesn't bark. My dog almost smiles, which is weird. He's just a very happy dog.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Dog, Very Happy, Really Great

  "Jimmy Fallon Interviews Jimmy Fallon". Interview with Eric Spitznagel and Peter Yang, www.menshealth.com. December 23, 2014.

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• Papa's in a bad way, Locke. I wanted to see you before you saw him - he has some...things he wishes to discuss with you. I want you to know that whatever he asks, I don't want you...for my sake...well, please, just agree. Please him, do you understand?" "No garrista who loves life has ever tried to do otherwise. You think I'm inclined to walk in on a day like today and deliberately twist his breeches? If your father says 'bark like a dog' I say 'What breed, Your Honour?

  Scott Lynch

  Dog, Father, Love Life

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• You and me?” I let out a stunned bark of laughter. “There is no you and me.” “That’s what you think,” Chaz says, tugging on his coat. “And I’ll be damned if I’m going to wait around until you figure out that isn’t true.” “Fine,” I say “I’m not asking you to, am I?” “No.” Chaz is smiling… but not like he’s happy. “But you would if you had the slightest idea what was good for you.” And with that, he yanks open the door and storms through it, slamming it closed behind him with enough force to cause the windowpanes to rattle. And then he’s gone.

  Meg Cabot

  Laughter, Thinking, Doors

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• The frontiers are not east or west, north or south; but wherever a man fronts a fact, though that fact be a neighbor, there is anunsettled wilderness between him and Canada, between him and the setting sun, or, farther still, between him and it. Let him build himself a log house with the bark on where he is, fronting IT, and wage there an Old French war for seven or seventy years, with Indians and Rangers, or whatever else may come between him and the reality, and save his scalp if he can.

  Henry David Thoreau

  War, Reality, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers (Annotated Edition)”, p.257, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Live more than your neighbor. Unleash yourself upon the world and go places. Go now. Giggle, no, laugh. And bark at the moon like the wild dog that you are. Understand that this in not a dress rehearsal. This is it. Your life. Face your fears and live your dreams. Take it all in. Yes, every chance you get. Come close. And by all means, whatever you do, get it on film.

  Jon Blais

  Dream, Dog, Mean

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• I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Hope, Wisdom, Fear

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.49, Cambridge University Press

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• If you dry the chestnut, both the barks being taken away, beat them into powder and make the powder up into an electuary with honey, it is a first-rate remedy for cough and spitting of blood.

  Nicholas Culpeper

  Taken, Blood, Nuts

  Nicholas Culpeper (1992). “Culpeper's Complete Herbal”

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• Let anyone speak hundreds of things against you, do not resent by giving a bitter reply.
  If you tolerate such things, you will certainly be happy.
  If anybody wants any money from you, and you are not inclined to give, do not give. But do not bark at him like a Dog.

  Sai Baba

  Dog, Giving, Want

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• Like the dog who barks at the train, I bark not because I expect the train to stop, but because I am a dog.

  Dwight Longenecker

  Dog, Train

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• The sun's rim dips; the stars rush out: At one stride comes the dark; With far-heard whisper o'er the sea, Off shot the spectre-bark.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Stars, Dark, Sea

  'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' (1798) pt. 3

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• Who to a woman trusts his peace of mind, Trusts a frail bark, with a tempestuous wind.

  George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

  Peace, Wind, Mind

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• Photography is a holding together of opposites: Light and dark, beautiful and ugly, sublime and banal, concious and unconcious. I am still struck by the power of photography to strip away the bark of the mind and reveal the visceral workings underneath.

  Jack Welpott

  Beautiful, Photography, Dark

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• The first animals to be successfully domesticated were dogs, which were a big help because they would bark all night and fetch thrown sticks, thereby freeing humans from having to perform these tedious yet vital tasks.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Dog, Humorous

  Dave Barry (2011). “Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway”, p.11, Ballantine Books

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• The thrill of tramping alone and unafraid through a wilderness of lakes, creeks, alpine meadows, and glaciers is not known to many. A civilization can be built around the machine but it is doubtful that a meaningful life can be produced by it.... When man worships at the feet of avalas creations. When he feels the wind blowing through him on a high peak or sleeps under a closely matted white bark pine in an exposed basin, he is apt to find his relationship to the universe.

  William O. Douglas

  Meaningful, Sleep, Journey

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• It is well to moor your bark with two anchors.

  Publilius Syrus

  Anchors, Two, Safety

  "Maxims". 119,

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• GLOUCESTER: Yet so much is my poverty of spirit, So mighty and so many my defects, As I had rather hide me from my greatness, Being a bark to brook no mighty sea, Than in my greatness covet to be hid, And in the vapour of my glory smother'd. But God be thanked. . . .

  William Shakespeare

  Greatness, Sea, Vapour

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Complete Works of William Shakespeare: Complete Comedies, Histories, Tragedies and Poems”, p.3436, Ageless Reads

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• We have ploughed the vast ocean in a fragile bark.

  Ovid

  Ocean, Sea, Ships

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• In the name of God, Monsieur, let us have greater confidence in Him than we do; let us allow Him to steer our little bark; if it is useful and pleasing to Him, He will save it from shipwreck.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Names, Littles

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1993). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653”, New City Pr

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• I had a slight touch of Tourette's, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night.

  Dan Aykroyd

  Mean, Night, Cry

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• I am determined, even if they throw mud in my face, never to show any resentment, nor break with them, nor deviate from the esteem and honor I owe them in the sight of God. If they forget themselves and say or do something offensive against your little bark, even if it is done purposely to make it sink, bear with it for the love of God, who will save you from shipwreck and calm the storm. Do not complain or even say a single work about it. In spite of everything, continue to compliment them when you meet, as if nothing were amiss.

  Vincent de Paul

  Wisdom, Sight, Honor

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents”

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• Dumb animals we call them, while they bark and neigh and moo. They talk as much as we do - to them we seem dumb too.

  Rebecca McCann

  Animal, Dumb, Cows

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• Peoples lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, unfathomable-deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum. . . . What I wanted [to write down] was every last thing, every layer of speech and thought, stroke of light on bark or walls, every smell, pothole, pain, crack, delusion, held still and held together-radiant, everlasting.

  Alice Munro

  Wall, Pain, Writing

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• Family, that slippery word, a star to every wandering bark, and everyone sailing under a different sky.

  Mark Haddon

  Stars, Sky, Sailing

  "The Red House by Mark Haddon - review" by Carol Birch, www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2012.

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• The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart-see, they bark at me.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Littles, Sweetheart

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 3, sc. 6, l. [65]

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