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• Clare had studied the curves of those lips so many times that he could reproduce them mentally with ease: and now, as they again confronted him, clothed with colour and life, they sent an aura over his flesh, a breeze through his nerves, which wellnigh produced a qualm; and actually produced, by some mysterious physiological process, a prosaic sneeze.

  Thomas Hardy

  Curves, Nerves, Flesh

  Thomas Hardy (2007). “Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Second Edition”, p.173, Broadview Press

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• How oft, in nations gone corrupt, And by their own devices brought down to servitude, That man chooses bondage before liberty. Bondage with ease before strenuous liberty.

  John Milton

  Men, Liberty, Gone

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• Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.

  Alexander Pope

  Wise, Pain, Women

  Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The poems of Alexander Pope”, p.91

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• Before, I was always trying to make my relationships work by means of willpower and forced affability. This time I didn't have to strive for anything. A quality of ease spread over us.

  Charles Baxter

  Mean, Always Trying, Quality

  "The Feast of Love: A Novel". Book by Charles Baxter, May 1, 2001.

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• The tree that never had to fight for sun and sky and air and light but stood out in the open plain and always got it share of rain, never became a forest king but lived and died a scrubby thing. Good timber does not grow with ease. The stronger wind, the stronger trees.

  Douglas Malloch

  Kings, Rain, Fighting

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• The brain is wider than the sky, For, put them side by side, The one the other will include With ease, and you beside.

  Emily Dickinson

  Sky, Brain, Sides

  Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.240, First Avenue Editions

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• The Lord did strengthen them that they could bear up their burdens with ease, and they did submit cheerfully and with patience to all the will of the Lord.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Bears, Lord, Burden

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• What keeps so many people back is simply unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Inspirational, Sacrifice, Pay The Price

  Orison Swett Marden (1997). “Exceptional Employee”, p.114

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• She felt like someone who drowns remembering what it was like to still be on the boat, so calm and at ease, so carelessly safe

  Stephen King

  Safe, Calm, Remember

  Stephen King (1999). “The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon: A Novel”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• Though it was bright sunshine everyone felt suddenly cold. The only two people present who seemed to be quite at their ease were Aslan and the Witch herself. It was the oddest thing to see those two faces - the golden face and the dead-white face so close together. Not that the Witch looked Aslan exactly in his eyes; Mrs Beaver particularly noticed this.

  C. S. Lewis

  Eye, Sunshine, Two

  C. S. LEWIS (1950). “THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE”

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• I have found that the greatest degree of inner tranquility comes from the development of love and compassion. The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being. Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease. It is the ultimate source of success in life.

  Dalai Lama

  Motivational, Compassion, Feelings

  Dalai Lama XIV, Rajiv Mehrotra (2010). “In My Own Words: An Introduction to My Teachings and Philosophy”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Bend down, bend down. Excess is the only ease, so bend. The sun is in the tree. Put your mouth on mine. Bend down beam & slash, for Dread is dreamed-up-scenes of what comes after death. Is being fled from what bends down in pain. The elbow bends in the brain, lifts the cup. The worst is yet to dream you up, so bend down the intrigue you dreamed. Flee the hayneedle in the brain's tree. Excess allures by leaps. Stars burn clean. Oriole bitches and gleams. Dread is the fear of being less forever. So bend. Bend down and kiss what you see.

  Stan Rice

  Dream, Stars, Pain

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• And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification

  William Blake

  Genius, Sake, Honest

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.39, Univ of California Press

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• I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Truth, Lying, Science

  "What is Art?". Book by Leo Tolstoy, Ch. 14, 1897.

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• Being at ease with himself put him at ease with the world.

  John Steinbeck

  World

  John Steinbeck (2008). “Sweet Thursday”, p.58, Penguin

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• Most of us do not take these situations as teachings. We automatically hate them. We run like crazy. We use all kinds of ways to escape - all addictions stem from this moment when we meet our edge and we just can't stand it. We feel we have to soften it, pad it with something, and we become addicted to whatever it is that seems to ease the pain.

  Pema Chodron

  Running, Pain, Hate

  "When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times". Book by Pema Chodron, September 26, 2000.

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• What he would say, he cannot say to this woman whose openness is like a wound, whose youth is not mortal yet. He cannot alter what he loves most in her, her lack of compromise, where the romance of the poems she loves still sits with ease in the real world. Outside these qualities he knows there is no order in the world.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Real, Order, Romance

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.157, Vintage

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• I don't think that women ought to sit down at table with men. It ruins conversation and I'm sure it's very bad for them. It puts ideas in their heads, and women are never at ease with themselves when they have ideas.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Men, Thinking, Ideas

  W. Somerset Maugham (2013). “The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection”, p.2031, eBookIt.com

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• For the world was changing, and sweetness was gone, and virtue too. Worry had crept on a corroding world, and what was lost- good manners, ease and beauty? Ladies were not ladies anymore, and you couldn't trust a gentleman's word.

  John Steinbeck

  Worry, Gentleman, Gone

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• Time does not bring relief; you all have lied Who told me time would ease me of my pain! I miss him in the weeping of the rain; I want him at the shrinking of the tide; The old snows melt from every mountain-side, And last year's leaves are smoke in every lane; But last year's bitter loving must remain Heaped on my heart, and my old thoughts abide! There are a hundred places where I fear To go,--so with his memory they brim! And entering with relief some quiet place Where never fell his foot or shone his face I say, 'There is no memory of him here!' And so stand stricken, so remembering him!

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Pain, Memories, Rain

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2014). “Millay: Poems”, p.56, Everyman's Library

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• What we need most right now, at this moment, is a kind of patriotic grace - a grace that takes the long view, apprehends the moment we're in, comes up with ways of dealing with it, and eschews the politically cheap and manipulative. That admits affection and respect. That encourages them. That acknowledges that the small things that divide us are not worthy of the moment; that agrees that the things that can be done to ease the stresses we feel as a nation should be encouraged, while those that encourage our cohesion as a nation should be supported.

  Peggy Noonan

  Stress, Patriotic, Views

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• Some are born with knowledge, some derive it from study, and some acquire it only after a painful realization of their ignorance. But the knowledge being possessed, it comes to the same thing. Some study with a natural ease, some from a desire for advantages, and some by strenuous effort. But the achievement being made, it comes to the same thing.

  Confucius

  Learning, Ignorance, Achievement

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• Adults forget the depths of languor into which the adolescent mind decends with ease. They are prone to undervalue the mental growth that occurs during daydreaming and aimless wandering

  E. O. Wilson

  Growth, Mind, Adults

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• There are three things, and three things only, that can lift the pain of mortality and ease the ravages of life. These are wine, women and song.

  Neil Gaiman

  Song, Pain, Wine

  Neil Gaiman (2005). “Anansi Boys”

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• When a client is driven to the utmost extremity, it is warmth and food and ease from pain he wants. Peace and justice come afterward. Rain symbolizes mercy and sunlight charity, but rain and sunlight are better than mercy and charity. Otherwise they would degrade the things they symbolize.

  Gene Wolfe

  Pain, Rain, Justice

  Gene Wolfe (2011). “The Citadel of the Autarch: Urth: Book of the New Sun”, p.119, Hachette UK

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