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• Sweet and low, sweet and low, Wind of the western sea, Low, low, breathe and blow, Wind of the western sea! Over the rolling waters go, Come from the dying moon, and blow, Blow him again to me; While my little one, while my pretty one, sleeps. Sleep and rest, sleep and rest, Father will come to thee soon; Rest, rest, on mother's breast, Father will come to thee soon; Father will come to his babe in the nest, Silver sails all out of the west Under the silver moon: Sleep, my little one, sleep, my pretty one, sleep.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Mother, Sweet, Father

  'The Princess' (1847) pt. 3, song (added 1850)

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• The splendour falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story: The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Wall, Fall, Lakes

  'The Princess' (1847) pt. 4, song (added 1850)

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• O hark,O hear! how thin and clear And thinner, clearer, farther going! O sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of Elfland faintly blowing! Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying: Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Sweet, Echoes, Purple

  1850 The Princess, pt.4, added song, stanza 2.

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• Blow trumpet, for the world is white with May.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  White, World, May

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Coming of Arthur' (1869) l. 481

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• Neither the gifts nor the blows of fortune equal those of nature.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Fortune, Equal

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

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• I think it's gone much too far. Most of them are not worth the powder to blow them to hell.

  John C. Bogle

  Thinking, Gone, Investing

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• ... tobacco kills 52,000 people a year from lung cancer, and there's no telling how many lives have been ruined through drinking.But to my knowledge, no one has ever died of a blow job.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Jobs, Cancer, Drinking

  Florynce Kennedy (1976). “Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times”

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• How violently do rumors blow the sails of popular judgments! How few there be that can discern between truth and truth-likeness, between shows and substance!

  Philip Sidney

  Rumor, Substance, Judgment

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• I must have liberty
  Withal, as large a charter as the wind,
  To blow on whom I please, for so fools have.

  William Shakespeare

  Wind, Liberty, Fool

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 47

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• The power of magic has no known limits. A person knows, in a fair way, his own physical capacities, the weight of the blows he can deal, the furthest range of his arrows, the strength of his voice, the speed and endurance of his running; but the reaches of his mind are indefinite and, to his feeling, infinite.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Running, Voice, Arrows

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• Thus, statesmanlike, I'll saucily impose,
  And safe from action, valiantly advise;
  Sheltered in impotence, urge you to blows,
  And being good for nothing else, be wise.

  John Wilmot

  Wise, Drinking, Safe

  John Wilmot, John Adlard (2002). “The Debt to Pleasure: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, in the Eyes of His Contemporaries and in His Own Poetry and Prose”, p.112, Taylor & Francis

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• Surmise is the gossamer that malice blows on fair reputations, the corroding dew that destroys the choice blossom. Surmise is primarily the squint of suspicion, and suspicion is established before it is confirmed.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Choices, Dew, Reputation

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• Have you not budged an inch, then? Such is the daily news. Its facts appear to float in the atmosphere.... We should wash ourselves clean of such news. Of what consequence, though our planet explode, if there is no character involved in the explosion? In health we have not the least curiosity about such events. We do not live for idle amusement. I would not run round a corner to see the world blow up.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Running, Character, Atmosphere

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• The bud, though plucked, would not be withered, only transplanted to a fitter soil to ripen and blow beneath a brighter sun; and though I might not cherish and watch my child's unfolding intellect, he would be snatched away from all the suffering and sins of earth; and my understanding tells me this would be no great evil; but my heart shrinks from the contemplation of such a possibility, and whispers I could not bear to see him die.

  Anne Bronte

  Children, Heart, Evil

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• If you want a peaceful place to dwell Cold Mountain is guaranteed forever A light wind blows softly in the pines The sound is good when you are close One old man sits beneath the trees Reading Lao Tzu and Huang Ti, mumbling I could not find the world if I searched ten years I've forgotten the road by which I came

  Hanshan

  Reading, Men, Light

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• Man's quest for knowledge is an expanding series whose limit is infinity, but philosophy seeks to attain that limit at one blow, by a short circuit providing the certainty of complete and inalterable truth. Science meanwhile advances at its gradual pace, often slowing to a crawl, and for periods it even walks in place, but eventually it reaches the various ultimate trenches dug by philosophical thought, and, quite heedless of the fact that it is not supposed to be able to cross those final barriers to the intellect, goes right on.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Men

  Stanislaw Lem (1984). “His Master's Voice”, p.36, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A breath of will blows eternally through the universe of souls in the direction of Right and Necessity. It is the air which all intellects inhale and exhale, and it is the wind which blows the worlds into order and orbit.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Air, Order, Wind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.416, Harvard University Press

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• When a strong wind blows, the clouds vanish and blue sky appears. Similarly, when the powerful wisdom that understand the nature of the mind arises, the dark clouds of ego disappear.

  Thubten Yeshe

  Wisdom, Nature, Strong

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• The things we now esteem fixed shall, one by one, detach themselves, like ripe fruit, from our experience, and fall. The wind shall blow them none knows whither.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fall, Wind, Fruit

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.124

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• Children whose curiosity survives parental discipline and who manage to grow up before they blow up are invited to join the Yale faculty. Within the university they go on asking their questions and trying to find the answers ... it is a place where the world's hostility to curiosity can be defied.

  Edmund Morgan

  Children, Growing Up, Men

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• The years of imprisonment hardened me ... Perhaps if you have been given a moment to hold back and wait for the next blow, your emotions wouldn't be blunted as they have been in my case. When it happens every day of your life, when that pain becomes a way of life ... there is no longer anything I can fear. There is nothing the government has not done to me. There isn't any pain I haven't known.

  Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

  Fear, Pain, Government

  "Winnie Madikizela-Mandela dies aged 81" by Jason Burke, www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2018.

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• Dead archaeology is the driest dust that blows.

  Mortimer Wheeler

  Dust, Archaeology

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• I think what makes people ill a lot of the time is the belief that your thoughts are concrete and that you're responsible for your thoughts. Whereas actually - the way I see it - your thoughts are what the wind blows through your mind.

  Thom Yorke

  Thinking, Wind, People

  "Thom Yorke: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. February 13, 2013.

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• Force, unregulated or ill-regulated, is not only wasted in the void, like that of gunpowder burned in the open air, and steam unconfined by science; but, striking in the dark, and its blows meeting only the air, they recoil, and bruise itself.

  Albert Pike

  Dark, Air, Gunpowder

  Albert Pike (2013). “Morals and Dogma”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• Absence cools moderate passions, and inflames violent ones; just as the wind blows out candles, but kindles fires.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Passion, Wind

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