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• Seventeen hundred and fifty-five.
  Georgius Secundus was then alive,--
  Snuffy old drone from the German hive.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Drones, Alive, Fifty

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (1862). “Songs in Many Keys”, p.167

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• The Anglo-Saxon hive have extirpated Paganism from the greater part of the North American continent; but with it they have likewise extirpated the greater portion of the Red race. Civilization is gradually sweeping from the earth the lingering vestiges of Paganism, and at the same time the shrinking forms of its unhappy worshippers.

  Herman Melville

  Civilization, Race, Unhappy

  Herman Melville (1982). “Herman Melville: Typee, Omoo, Mardi”, p.230, Library of America

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• Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it. As soon you apply yourself to orison, you will at once feel your senses gather themselves together: they seem like bees which return to the hive and there shut themselves up to work at the making of honey. At the first call of the will, they come back more and more quickly. At last, after countless exercises, of this kind, God disposes them to a state of utter rest and of perfect contemplation.

  Teresa of Avila

  Exercise, Self, Perfect

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• Mine be a cot beside the hill;
  A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear;
  A willowy brook, that turns a mill,
  With many a fall shall linger near.

  Samuel Rogers

  Fall, Ears, Bees

  Samuel Rogers (1843). “Poems”, p.215

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• The girl must early be impressed with the idea that she is to be "a hand, not a mouth"; a worker, and not a drone, in the great hive of human activity. Like the boy, she must be taught to look forward to a life of self-dependence, and early prepare herself for some trade or profession.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Girl, Work, Boys

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ida Husted Harper (1889). “History of woman suffrage”

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• Our bodies are but the anvils of pain and disease and our minds the hives of unnumbered cares.

  Walter Raleigh

  Life, Pain, Mind

  Sir Walter Raleigh (1829). “The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt., Now First Collected: -7. The history of the world”, p.54

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• Just as the queen bee, the highest-ranking, peerless creature of her hive, is surrounded by lowly drones to please her, whereas the workers produce honey, the same way is the one who sits on the throne an equal only to himself, and no one's companion.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Queens, Power, Honey

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• the child unlucky in his little State,
  Some hearth where freedom is excluded,
  A hive whose honey is fear and worry,
  Feels calmer now and somehow assured of escape

  W. H. Auden

  Children, Fear, Worry

  W. H. Auden, “In Memory Of Sigmund Freud”

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• I hate birthdays. I hate birthday parties. I hate them. I don't know what it is, anybody's only got to come wafting near me with a piece of cake with a candle on and I break out in hives.

  Cat Deeley

  Birthday, Hate, Party

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• Been meddling, have you?” Royce asked, looking around at the hive of activity. “You must admit they didn’t have much in the way of a defense plan,” Hadrian said, pausing to wipe the sweat from his forehead. Royce smiled at him. “You just can’t help yourself, can you?

  Michael J. Sullivan

  Sweat, Hadrian, Defense

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• Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you'll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive.

  Jean Cocteau

  Glasses, Mirrors, Watches

  Jean Cocteau (1933). “Orphée: a tragedy in one act and an interval”

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• Sometimes human beings are very much like bees. Bees are fiercely protective of their hive, provided you are outside it. Once you’re in, the workers sort of assume that it must have been cleared by management and take no notice; various freeloading insects have evolved a mellifluous existence because of this very fact. Humans act the same way.

  Neil Gaiman

  Way, Facts, Bees

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• Melancholy held me hostage, and the bees built a hive of sadness in my soul.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Sadness, Soul, Bees

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2010). “Chains”, p.319, Simon and Schuster

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• ‎What color is a chameleon placed on a mirror? ... The chameleon responding to its own shifting image is an apt analog of the human world of fashion. Taken as a whole, what are fads but the response of a hive mind to its own reflection? In a 21st-century society wired into instantaneous networks, marketing is the mirror; the collective consumer is the chameleon.

  Kevin Kelly

  Fashion, Taken, Reflection

  Kevin Kelly (1995). “Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World”, p.70, Basic Books

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• Having Reyes so near is painful. I think it has apoplexy." "Do you even know what that means?" "No, but it sounds serious. Like Ebola. Or hives

  Darynda Jones

  Mean, Thinking, Ebola

  Darynda Jones (2015). “The Charley Davidson Series”, p.406, St. Martin's Press

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• For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every corner of nature; the difference is that instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

  Jonathan Swift

  Light, Two, Differences

  The Battle of the Books (1704) See Matthew Arnold 27

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• No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Compassion, Matter, Bees

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1883). “Emerson's Complete Works”

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• The bugs are not like us. The Pseudo-Arachnids aren’t even like spiders. They are arthropods who happen to look like a madman’s conception of a giant intelligent spider, but their organization, psychological and economic, is more like that of ants or termites; they are communal entities, the ultimate dictatorship of the hive.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Intelligent, Organization, Giants

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• Because two people in love don't make a hive mind. Neither should they want to be a hive mind, to think the same, to know the same. It's about being separate and still loving each other, being distinct from each other. One is the violin string one is the bow.

  Graham Joyce

  Thinking, Two, People

  Graham Joyce (2011). “The Silent Land: A novel”, p.169, Anchor

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• I've said this over and over, but I'll say it a million more times - I'm concerned more about the death of a bee than I am about terrorism. Because we're losing hives and bees by the millions because of such strong pesticides.

  Patti Smith

  Strong, Pesticides, Bees

  "Patti Smith: Forget terrorism, save the bees" by Caitlin McDevitt, www.politico.com. June 6, 2012.

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• Introduction To Poetry I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear against its hive. I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out, or walk inside the poem's room and feel the walls for a light switch. I want them to waterski across the surface of a poem waving at the author's name on the shore. But all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it. They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means.

  Billy Collins

  Wall, Mean, Names

  Billy Collins (2014). “The Apple That Astonished Paris: Poems”, p.58, University of Arkansas Press

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• we are continually overflowing toward those who preceded us, toward our origin, and toward those who seemingly come after us. ... It is our task to imprint this temporary, perishable earth into ourselves so deeply, so painfully and passionately, that its essence can rise again “invisibly,” inside us. We are the bees of the invisible. We wildly collect the honey of the visible, to store it in the great golden hive of the invisible.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Essence, Tasks, Earth

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• You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.

  Jean Cocteau

  Glasses, Mirrors, Advice

  Quoted by Ned Rorem on "The Dick Cavett Show" at PBS, October 06, 1981.

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• I come from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation. In some this tendency produces hives, in others literature, in me both.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Irritation, Literature, Emotion

  Flannery O'Connor (2012). “Flannery O'Connor: The Cartoons”, p.112, Fantagraphics Books

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• As I sat in the hot, salty water, I thought, 'No wonder Mr. Bubble always gives me a urinary tract infection and hives.' Mr. Bubble was for common people. Mr. Bubble was for my so-called brother, their true child. I was a Vanderbilt. I should bathe in condiments and seasonings.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Brother, Children, People

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “Magical Thinking”, p.23, Atlantic Books Ltd

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