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• To weep is to make less the depth of grief.

  William Shakespeare

  Broken Heart, Breakup, Grief

  1592 Richard. Henry VI PartThree, act 2, sc.1, l.85-6.

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• You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.

  H. L. Mencken

  Life, Ocean, Sea

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• How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Boyfriend, Valentine

  1850 Poems,'Sonnets from the Portuguese', sonnet 43.

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• Supporting characters add depth to a story, and great actors leave their imprint with the audience.

  Nicholas Lea

  Character, Add, Stories

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I like to be surprised. Fresh implications and plot twists erupt as a story unfolds. Characters develop backgrounds, adding depth and feeling. Writing feels like exploring

  David Brin

  Writing, Character, Feelings

  Orbit Interview, www.sffworld.com. July 19, 2002.

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• Don't fear your mortality, because it is this very mortality that gives meaning and depth and poignancy to all the days that will be granted to you.

  Paul Tsongas

  Giving, Granted, Mortality

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• You see, some non-Catholic friends of mine have questioned the depth of my faith because of the fact that I have a good education.

  Robert Vaughn

  Education, Catholic, Facts

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• From the wrestling of his own soul with the great enemy, comes that depth and mystery which startles us in Hamlet.

  Jones Very

  Wrestling, Soul, Enemy

  Jones Very (1839). “Essays and Poems”, p.86

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• Mostly I make lists for projects. This can be daunting. Breaking something big into its constituent parts will help you organize your thoughts, but it can also force you to confront the depth of your ignorance and the hugeness of the task. That's OK. The project may be the lion, but the list is your whip.

  Adam Savage

  Ignorance, Tasks, Lions

  "Adam Savage's first step of project planning: make a list". www.wired.com. October 10, 2012.

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• Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.

  Saint Augustine

  Heart, Men, Hair

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• Think excitement, talk excitement, act out excitement, and you are bound to become an excited person. Life will take on a new nest, deeper interest and greater meaning. You can think, talk and act yourself into dullness or into monotony or into unhappiness. By the same process you can build up inspiration, excitement and surging depth of joy.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspiration, Positivity, Thinking

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• It's our challenges and obstacles that give us layers of depth and make us interesting. Are they fun when they happen? No. But they are what make us unique.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Fun, Unique, Thinking

  "11 Epic Ways Love, Bravery & Audacity Transform Your Life" by Maimah Karmo, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 22, 2017.

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• Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown.

  Matthew Henry

  Elephants, Wade, Lambs

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 693), 1922.

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• Well, I believe that the depth of your struggle can determine the height of your success. I was inspired to come out of everything I've been through and end up in a place where I never thought that I would be.

  R. Kelly

  Believe, Struggle, Would Be

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.

  John F. Kennedy

  Art, Stars, Ocean

  Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1961

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• It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.

  John Locke

  Ocean, Serendipity, Use

  John Locke (1828). “An essay concerning human understanding ... The twentieth edition, etc”, p.15

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• There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Heart, Water, Secret

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Favorite Poems”, p.64, Courier Corporation

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• One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army.

  Jose Marti

  Powerful, Army, Principles

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Friends, Spring, Good Friend

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• When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Happiness, Summer

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• People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.

  Oscar Wilde

  People, Generosity, Giving

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.217, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Shyness is just egotism out of its depth.

  Penelope Keith

  Ego, Shyness, Egotism

  Daily Mail (UK), June 27, 1988.

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• Those who are rooted in the depths that are eternal and unchangeable and who rely on unshakeable principles, face change full of courage, courage based on faith.

  Emily Greene Balch

  Principles, Faces, Rely

  Emily Greene Balch (1972). “Beyond Nationalism: The Social Thought of Emily Greene Balch”, New York : Twayne Publishers

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• The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penetrated and found response in depths of his own sensuous nature that had never yet been reached.

  Kate Chopin

  Passion, Flames, White

  Kate Chopin (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Kate Chopin (Illustrated)”, p.845, Delphi Classics

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• Science sometimes falls short when trying to fathom the depths of our essence - and our inspiration comes from that essence.

  Lance Secretan

  Inspiration, Fall, Essence

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