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• Just as the creative artist is not allowed to choose, neither is he permitted to turn his back on anything: a single refusal, and he is cast out of the state of grace and becomes sinful all the way through.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Artist, Creative, Grace

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2002). “Letters on Cézanne”, p.60, Macmillan

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• There's nothing terrible in death;
  'Tis but to cast our robes away,
  And sleep at night, without a breath
  To break repose till dawn of day.

  Robert Montgomery

  Death, Sleep, Night

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• Democracy is always the work of kings. Ashes, which in themselves are sterile, fertilize the land they are cast upon.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Kings, Land, Democracy

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.6

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• Casting out devils is mere juggling; they never cast out any but what they first cast in.

  John Selden

  Devil, Casting, Firsts

  John Selden, Samuel Weller Singer, Edward FitzGerald (1860). “Table Talk: With a Biographical Pref. and Notes”, p.144

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• I vote because it's what small-d democracy is about. Because there are places where people fight for generations and stand for hours to cast a ballot knowing what we ought to remember: that it makes a difference. Not always a big difference. Not always an immediate difference. But a difference.

  Ellen Goodman

  Fighting, Differences, Knowing

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• Before thy undertaking of any design, weigh the glory of thy action with the danger of the attempt; if the glory outweigh the danger, it is cowardice to neglect it; if the danger exceed the glory, it is rashness to attempt it; if the balances stand poised, let thy own genius cast them.

  Francis Quarles

  Design, Balance, Genius

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• If thy desire to raise thy fortunes encourage thy delights to the casts of fortune, be wise betimes, lest thou repent too late; what thou gettest, thou gainest by abused providence; what thou losest, thou losest by abused patience; what thou winnest is prodigally spent; what thou losest is prodigally lost; it is an evil trade that prodigally drives; and a bad voyage where the pilot is blind.

  Francis Quarles

  Wise, Gambling, Evil

  Francis Quarles (1856). “Enchiridon: containing institutions divine, moral”, p.149

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• Will cast the spear and leave the rest to Jove.

  Homer

  Trust, Spears

  Homer (1898). “The Iliad of Homer”

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• The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.

  Homer

  God, Glorious

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• He that taketh his own cares upon himself loads himself in vain with an uneasy burden. I will cast all my cares on God; He hath bidden me; they cannot burden Him.

  Joseph Hall

  Care, Burden, Vain

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• Every man must, in a measure, be alone in the world. No heart was ever cast in the same mould as that which we bear within us.

  Eric Berne

  Heart, Men, Bears

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• The mind that is much elevated and insolent with prosperity, and cast down with adversity, is generally abject and base.

  Epicurus

  Adversity, Mind, Prosperity

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• it is the modern nature of goodness to exert itself quietly, while a few characters of the opposite cast seem, by the rumor of their exploits, to fill the world; and by their noise to multiply their numbers.

  Hannah More

  Character, Opposites, Numbers

  Hannah More (1854). “The Works of Hannah More: Structures on modern system of female education”, p.7

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• The plot of a movie is its motor. It is not an accident that people call pictures 'vehicles' for stars. A vehicle has to move. A plotless story is like an expensive car with a wonderful body design, luxurious seats, upholstery, headlights (production, direction, cast) - and no motor under its hood. That is why it gets nowhere.

  Ayn Rand

  Movie, Stars, Moving

  Ayn Rand (1997). “Letters of Ayn Rand”, p.459, Penguin

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• You will cast away your cards and dice when you find the sweetness of youthful learning.

  Richard Baxter

  Wisdom, Cards, Dice

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• What is a body that casts no shadow? Nothing, a formlessness, two-dimensional, a comic-strip character. If I deny my own profound relationship with evil I deny my own reality. I cannot do, or make; I can only undo, unmake.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Character, Reality, Two

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• No one seemed able to look at themselves, coolly, from the outside. Their reality was all that could be seen in the light cast ahead by their own wishful thinking.

  Fay Weldon

  Reality, Thinking, Light

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• My job playing Sam Malone was to let the audience in, to love my bar full of people. And that informed my life. I mean, we're so different [in the cast], some of us. Miles apart. [But] when I see anyone from those days, I tap into that instant love for them.

  Ted Danson

  Jobs, Mean, People

  "The Best TV Show That's Ever Been". Interview with Brian Raftery, www.gq.com. September 27, 2012.

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• I do have a sense of fear every day going to work, but I think it's something that I like. I mean I do like the feeling of waking up on my own, having this moment of like: "Oh, f**k, I hope I can do this today!" Because it makes you realise that you're working with material or you're working with a director or you're working with a cast and they're keeping you on your toes.

  Charlize Theron

  Mean, Thinking, Feelings

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The dark grave, which knows all secrets, can alone reclaim the fatal doubt once cast on a woman's name.

  George Herbert

  Dark, Names, Doubt

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• The goodness of God to mankind is no less evinced in the chastisement with which He corrects His children than in the smiles of His providence; for the Lord will not cast off forever, but though He cause grief, yet will He have compassion according to the multitude of His mercies.

  Hosea Ballou

  Children, Grief, Compassion

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• Remember, when incited to slander, that it is only he among you who is without sin that may cast the first stone.

  Hosea Ballou

  May, Stones, Firsts

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• It has always seemed to me that if you could talk about your work in fully-formed phrases, you wouldn't write it. The writing is the statement, you see, and it seems to me that the poem or the story or the novel you write is the kind of metaphor you cast on life.

  Hortense Calisher

  Writing, Phrases, Stories

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• Anger as well as love casts out fear.

  Margaret Deland

  Anger, Wells

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• [On the British Museum:] It was manifestly impossible to read all the books in that huge, gloomy structure, but I made a good try and accumulated a fund of useless information guaranteed to cast a pall over any dinner table.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Book, Museums, Trying

  Elsa Maxwell (1955). “I married the world”

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