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• Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Losing, Virtue, Repentance

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• I think for a minute. Watching my wife fade into the distance, I put a hand on my heart. "Dead." I wave a hand toward my wife. "Dead." My eyes drift toward the sky and lose their focus. "Want it...to hurt. But...doesn't." Julie looks at me like she's waiting for more, and I wonder if I've expressed anything at all with my halting, mumbled soliloquy. Are my words ever actually audible, or do they just echo in my head while people stare at me, waiting? I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.

  Isaac Marion

  Hurt, Distance, Eye

  Isaac Marion (2012). “Warm Bodies: A Novel”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past.

  John Wyndham

  Past, Unknown Future

  John Wyndham (2003). “The Day of the Triffids”

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• Nature does not conquer the world to God. It never has. It never will. In America, with its vast abounding wealth, its grand expanse of prairie, its reach of river, and its exuberant productiveness, there is danger that our riches will draw us away from God, and fasten us to earth; that they will make us not only rich, but mean; not only wealthy, but wicked. The grand corrective is the cross of Christ, seen in the sanctuary where the life and light of God are exhibited, and where the reverberation of the echoes from the great white throne are heard.

  Richard Salter Storrs

  Mean, Rivers, White

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 522), 1895.

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• Conscious mind is a spatial analog of the world and mental acts are analogs of bodily acts. Consciousness operates only on objectively observable things. Or, to say it another way with echoes of John Locke, there is nothing in consciousness that is not an analog of something that was in behavior first.

  Julian Jaynes

  Mind, World, Way

  Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.76, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Mysterious haunts of echoes old and far, The voice divine of human loyalty.

  George Eliot

  Loyalty, Voice, Mysterious

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.467

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• No good act performed in the world ever dies. Science tells us that no atom of matter can ever be destroyed, that no force once started ever ends; it merely passes through a multiplicity of ever-changing phases. Every good deed done to others is a great force that starts an unending pulsation through time and eternity. We may not know it, we may never hear a word of gratitude or recognition, but it will all come back to us in some form as naturally, as perfectly, as inevitably, . . . as echo answers to sound.

  William George Jordan

  Gratitude, Deeds Done, Atoms

  William George Jordan (1913). “The Power of Truth”

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• Virtue is no empty echo.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Virtue, Empty

  "The Word of the Faithful" by Friedrich Schiller, st. 3, 1797.

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• And where there is no Echo there is no description of space or love. There is only silence.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Space, Silence, Description

  Twitter post from Jul 29, 2010

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• Echo of your thoughts has greater impact on the world than your actions.

  Amit Ray

  Impact, World, Action

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• An echo of music, a face in the street, the wafer of the new moon, a wanton thought - only in the iridescence of things the vagabond soul is happy.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Moon, Hair, Soul

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• All whispers and echoes from a past that is gone teem into the sleeper's brain, and he is with them, and part of them.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Past, Brain, Gone

  Daphne Du Maurier, Daphne Du Maurier (Dame) (1942). “Frenchman's creek”, Sourcebooks Landmark

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• The sound of distant breakers made her heart ache with melancholy. She was in the mood when the sea has a saddening effect upon the nerves. It is only when we are very happy that we can bear to gaze merrily upon the vast and limitless expanse of water, rolling on and on with such persistent, irritating monotony to the accompaniment of our thoughts, whether grave or gay. When they are gay, the waves echo their gaiety; but when they are sad, then every breaker, as it rolls, seems to bring additional sadness and to speak to us of hopelessness and of the pettiness of all our joys.

  Baroness Orczy

  Heart, Sadness, Gay

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• Since childhood, I was afflicted with a sick hypersensitivity, and my imagination quickly turned everything into a memory, too quickly: sometimes one day was enough, or an interval of a few hours, or a routine change of place, for an everyday event with a lyrical value that I did not sense at the time, to become suddenly adorned with a radiant echo, the echo ordinarily reserved only for those memories which have been standing for many years in the powerful fixative of lyrical oblivion.

  Danilo Kis

  Memories, Powerful, Years

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• History is a symphony of echoes heard and unheard. It is a poem with events as verses.

  Charles Angoff

  Symphony, History, Events

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• Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.

  Thomas Fuller

  Art, World, Lasts

  "The Holy State and the Profane State". Book by Thomas Fuller, 1642.

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• As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Love, Conceited, America

  Daniel J. Boorstin (2012). “The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America”, p.257, Vintage

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• Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air.

  Henry Anatole Grunwald

  Air, Faults, Triumph

  "WikiLeaks and the Myth of Journalistic Objectivity" by James Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 3, 2010.

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• What passes for real debate in Washington often seems more like an echo chamber, with politicians talking at politicians.

  Bill Delahunt

  Real, Talking, Debate

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• Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female; and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners.

  Rowan Williams

  Marriage, Unique, Covenant With God

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• A work of art is an echo chamber which repeats what people say about it.

  Mason Cooley

  Art, People, Repeats

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• That tuneful nymph, the babbling Echo.

  Ovid

  Nymphs, Babbling

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• There is a word in Old English which belongs wholly to that civilization - "dustsceawung," meaning contemplation of dust. It is a true image of the Anglo-Saxon mind, or at least an echo of that consciousness which considered transcience and loss to be part of the human estate; it was a world in which life was uncertain and the principal diety was fate or destiny or "wyrd."

  Peter Ackroyd

  Fate, Loss, Destiny

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• The secondary Imagination I consider as an echo of the former, co-existing with the conscious will, yet still as identical with the primary in the kind of its agency, and differing only in degree, and in the mode of its operation. It dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to recreate: or where this process is rendered impossible, yet still at all events it struggles to idealize and to unify. It is essentially vital, even as all objects (as objects) are essentially fixed and dead.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Struggle, Agency, Order

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2015). “Biographia Literaria: Top Biography”, p.123, 谷月社

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• For all is like an ocean, all flows and connects; touch it in one place and it echoes at the other end of the world.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Ocean, World, Flow

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.319, Macmillan

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