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• A laugh is the loud echo of a sigh; a sigh the faint echo of a laugh.

  Sean O'Casey

  Laughter, Laughing, Loud

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• All that is not eternal is eternally out of date. C. S. LEWIS, The Four Loves Life is short. Eternity is long. BENTLEY LITTLE, His Father's Son What we do now echoes in eternity.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Father, Love Life, Life Is Short

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• I am not engaged to Christianity by decent forms, or saving ordinances; it is not usage, it is not what I do not understand, that binds me to it -- let these be the sandy foundations of falsehoods. What I revere and obey in it is its reality, its boundless charity, its deep interior life, the rest it gives to my mind, the echo it returns to my thoughts, the perfect accord it makes with my reason through all its representation of God and His Providence; and the persuasion and courage that come out thence to lead me upward and onward.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Reality, Giving, Perfect

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2907, Delphi Classics

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• By day, Venice is a city of museums and churches, packed with great art. Linger over lunch, trying to crack a crustacean with weird legs and antennae. At night, when the hordes of day-trippers have gone, another Venice appears. Dance across a floodlit square. Glide in a gondola through quiet canals while music echoes across the water. Pretend it's Carnevale time, don a mask - or just a fresh shirt - and become someone else for a night.

  Rick Steves

  Art, Night, Venice

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• When the truths of love are planted firm, they won't be hard to find. And words of love I speak to you will echo in your mind.

  Stevie Wonder

  Philosophy, Mind, Speak

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• To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking.

  Arnold Bennett

  Writing, Oneself, Cease

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• Where lurk sweet echoes of the dear homevoices, Each note of which calls like a little sister, Those airs slow, slow ascending, as the smokewreaths Rise from the hearthstones of our native hamlets Cyrano Act 5.

  Edmond Rostand

  Family, Sweet, Heart

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• applause, n. The echo of a platitude.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Applause, Platitudes, Audience

  'The Cynic's Word Book' (1906) p. 19

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• A brilliant treatment of the history of Purgatory in England and its survivals and echoes throughout Shakespeare's plays, above all Hamlet.

  Carol Zaleski

  Play, Survival, England

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• In prayer, something like an echo takes place. When you strike a note on the piano, corresponding strings in all the other pianos in the room start to vibrate. It is just the same when we express a pure wish in our ardent prayers: all around us we mobilize angels who are inspired by the same wish.

  Richard Wurmbrand

  Prayer, Angel, Piano

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• Quite often in history action has been the echo of words. An era of talk was followed by an era of events. The new barbarism of the twentieth century is the echo of words bandied about by brilliant speakers and writers in the second half of the nineteenth.

  Eric Hoffer

  Events, Half, Eras

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• At the top of your lungs, shout and listen to the echoes. You must live life at the top of your voice!

  Ray Bradbury

  Live Life, Voice, Lungs

  Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller (2012). “Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews”, p.258, Melville House

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• History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days.

  Winston Churchill

  Passion, Past, History

  Sir Winston Churchill, Winston Churchill (1965). “Great destiny: sixty years of the memorable events in the life of the man of the century recounted in his own incomparable words”

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• A dissolute character is more dissolute in thought than in deed. And the same is true of violence. Our violence in word and deed is but a feeble echo of the surging violence of thought in us.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Character, Violence, Deeds

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• Sounds are the echo of the "Harmony of the Spheres" which man took into himself when he came down from the divine-spiritual world into the physical world.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Spiritual, Inspiration, Men

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• All of this passes, and none of it means anything to me.It's all foreign to my fate, and even to fate as a whole. It'sjust unconsciousness, curses of protest when chance hurlsstones, echoes of unknown voices - a collectivemishmash of life.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Mean, Fate, Voice

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• Later in the evening when you lie awake in bed with the echoes from the amplifiers ringing in your head.

  Bob Seger

  Lying, Rock And Roll, Bed

  Bob Seger, The Silver Bullet Band (2012). “Bob Seger - Ultimate Hits: Rock and Roll Never Forgets (Songbook)”, p.45, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• We are as the flute, and the music in us is from thee; we are as the mountain and the echo in us is from thee.

  Rumi

  Music, Mountain, Flutes

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.39, Lulu.com

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• God is coming! God is coming! All the element we swim in, this existence, echoes ahead the advent. God is coming! Can't you feel it?

  Walter Wangerin

  Swim, Elements, Advent

  Walter Wangerin (1989). “The manger is empty: stories in time”, Harpercollins

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• Ah, what a warning for a thoughtless man, Could field or grove, could any spot of earth, Show to his eye an image of the pangs Which it hath witnessed,-render back an echo Of the sad steps by which it hath been trod!

  William Wordsworth

  Eye, Men, Steps

  William Wordsworth (1994). “The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.850, Wordsworth Editions

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• I listened for the echo, and I heard only praise —

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Praise, Heard

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL - Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future: The Critique of the Traditional Morality and the Philosophy of the Past”, p.50, e-artnow

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• The many pro-surveillance advocates I have debated since Snowden blew the whistle have been quick to echo [Google CEO] Eric Schmidt's view that privacy is for people who have something to hide. But none of them would willingly give me the passwords to their email accounts, or allow video cameras in their homes.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Home, Views, People

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• Critical words to a child are as painful and damaging as being physically hit. They are verbal slaps in the face. Usually, critical words are accompanied by threats, name-calling, and yelling. This verbal abuse can be especially damaging. Insulting names echo in a child's mind over and over again until he comes to believe he is indeed stupid, selfish, lazy, or ugly and that in fact, that is all he is.

  Beverly Engel

  Children, Stupid, Selfish

  Beverly Engel (2002). “The Emotionally Abusive Relationship: How to Stop Being Abused and How to Stop Abusing”, p.71, John Wiley & Sons

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• This world is like a mountain. Your echo depends on you. If you scream good things, the world will give it back. If you scream bad things, the world will give it back. Even if someone says badly about you, speak well about him. Change your heart to change the world.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Heart, Giving, Mountain

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• The spoken discourse may roll on strongly as the great tidal wave; but, like the wave, it dies at last feebly on the sands. It is heard by few, remembered by still fewer, and fades away, like an echo in the mountains, leaving no token of power. It is the written human speech, that gave power and permanence to human thought.

  Albert Pike

  Writing, Leaving, Mountain

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