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• The place that does
  Contain my books, the best companions, is
  To me a glorious court, where hourly I
  Converse with the, old sages and philosophers;
  And sometimes for variety, I confer
  With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels;
  Calling their victories, if unjustly got,
  Unto a strict account; and in my fancy,
  Deface their ill-plac'd statutes.

  John William Fletcher

  Kings, Book, Victory

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• When I meet with any persons who write obscurely or converse confusedly, I am apt to suspect two things; first, that such persons do not understand themselves; and secondly, that they are not worthy of being understood by others.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Writing, Two, Style

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.114

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• If every call to Christ and His righteousness is a call to suffering, the converse is equally - every call to suffering is a call to Christ, a promotion, an invitation to come up higher.

  Charles Bent

  Suffering, Promotion, Christ

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• Imagination is the organ through which the soul within us recognizes a soul without us; the spiritual eye by which the mind perceives and converses with the spiritualities of nature under her material forms; which tends to exalt even the senses into soul by discerning a soul in the objects of sense.

  Henry Norman Hudson

  Spiritual, Eye, Imagination

  Henry Norman Hudson (1848). “Lectures on Shakespeare”, p.122

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• Only he who is capable of a genuine encounter with the other is capable of an authentic encounter with himself, and the converse is equally true...From this perspective, every spiritual exercise is a dialogue, insofar as it is an exercise of authentic presence, to oneself and to others.

  Pierre Hadot

  Spiritual, Exercise, Perspective

  "La Philosophie comme manière de vivre: Entretiens avec Jeannie Carlier et Arnold I. Davidson" by Pierre Hadot, Jeannie Carlier, Arnold I. Davidson, Paris: Albin Michel, translated by Michael Chase, (p. 91), 2001.

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• You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.

  Rachel Zoe

  Girl, Jeans, Hot

  "Rachel Zoe's Style DOs and DON'Ts" by Rachel Zoe, www.glamour.com. August 12, 2012.

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• The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Men, Tongue

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph H. Orth, Glen M. Johnson (1994). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.87, University of Missouri Press

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• Prayer is the converse of the soul with God. Therein we manifest or express to Him our reverence, and love for His divine perfection, our gratitude for all His mercies, our penitence for our sins, our hope in His forgiving love, our submission to His authority, our confidence in His care, our desires for His favour, and for the providential and spiritual blessings needed for ourselves and others.

  Charles Hodge

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Prayer

  Charles Hodge (1874). “Soteriology, eschatology”, p.692

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• If we ignore it the truth that God is love may slyly come to mean for us the converse, that love is God.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mean, Love Is, May

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues, with the advantage that the ocular dialect needs no dictionary, but is understood all the world over.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Men, Needs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.410

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• Our faith is concentrated in the Son of God, and through him in the Father; and the Holy Ghost is their minister to bring truths to our remembrance, to reveal new truths to us, and teach, guide, and direct the course of every mind, until we become perfected and prepared to go home, where we can see and converse with our Father in Heaven.

  Brigham Young

  Father, Home, Son

  Brigham Young (1858). “Journal of Discourses”

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• You must converse much with the field and the woods if you would imbibe such health into your mind and spirit as you covet for your body

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mind, Body, Woods

  Henry David Thoreau, Joseph O. Valentine, Thoreau Society (2001). “Thoreau on Land: Nature's Canvas”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You should carefully study the Art of Reasoning, as it is what most people are very deficient in, and I know few things more disagreeable than to argue, or even converse with a man who has no idea of inductive and deductive philosophy.

  William John Wills

  Art, Philosophy, Men

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• An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say 'Gentlemen' to the person with whom he is conversing.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  War, Fall, Gentleman

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2001). “Democracy in America”, p.102, Penguin

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• Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

  Jonathan Swift

  Art, People, Literature

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• However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Thinking, Sincerity, Distrust

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• When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Birthday, Marriage

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• I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

  Samuel Johnson

  Reading, Men, Political

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc”, p.118

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• My perfect guy wears converse, is totally laid back, and doesn't worry about being cool.

  Selena Gomez

  Girly, Perfect Guy, Worry

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• The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.

  Honore de Balzac

  Husband, Men, Lovers

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.58, The Floating Press

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• As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.

  John Adams

  Love, Children, Hero

  John Adams, Margaret A. Hogan (2007). “My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams”, p.165, Harvard University Press

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• Think of these pages as graffiti maybe, and where I have scratched up in a public place my longings and loves, my grievances and indecencies, be reminded in private of your own. In that way, at least, we can hold a kind of converse.

  Frederick Buechner

  Love, Thinking, Age

  Frederick Buechner (1970). “The alphabet of grace”

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• We keep each other alive with our stories. We need to share them, as much as we need to share food. We also require for our health the presence of good companions. One of the most extraordinary things about the land is that it knows this—and it compels language from some of us so that as a community we may converse about this or that place, and speak of the need.

  Barry Lopez

  Land, Community, Needs

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• Who said I can't wear my Converse With my dress, well baby That's just me!

  Demi Lovato

  Baby, Dresses, Said

  Song: La-la Land Machine, Album: Don't Forget, 2008

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• One is not born English without knowing how to converse easily about the weather.

  Deanna Raybourn

  Weather, Knowing, Born

  Deanna Raybourn (2015). “Dark Road to Darjeeling”, p.69, MIRA

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