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• It often astonishes me that I did not see the importance of meditation upon Scripture earlier in my Christian life. As the outward man is not fit for work for any length of time unless he eats, so it is with the inner man. What is the food for the inner man? Not prayer, but the Word of God -not the simple reading of the Word of God, so that it only passes through our minds, just as water runs through a pipe. No, we must consider what we read, ponder over it, and apply it to our hearts.

  George Muller

  Christian, Running, Prayer

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• Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance, These are the seals of that most firm assurance Which bars the pit over Destruction's strength; And if, with infirm hand, Eternity, Mother of many acts and hours, should free The serpent that would clasp her with his length; These are the spells by which to reassume An empire o'er the disentangled doom.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Mother, Hands, Endurance

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1820). “Prometheus Unbound: A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts with Other Poems”, p.152

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• I have often been surprised that Mathematics, the quintessence of Truth, should have found admirers so few and so languid. Frequent consideration and minute scrutiny have at length unravelled the cause: viz . that though Reason is feasted, Imagination is starved; whilst Reason is luxuriating in its proper Paradise, Imagination is wearily travelling on a dreary desert.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Should Have, Imagination, Paradise

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2015). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria”, p.4115, e-artnow

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• Sometimes the European and North American public like some things to be exotic and kept at arm's length. They don't want sometimes to know that foreign artists are doing something that's at least as relevant as what's being done here.

  David Byrne

  Artist, Exotic, Done

  Interview with Chris Dahlen, pitchfork.com. July 17, 2006.

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• My favorite wild animal is a narwhal - the unicorn of the sea. It’s a whale with a tooth that sticks out of its head that’s almost two-thirds the length of its entire body.

  Kesha

  Animal, Whales, Sea

  Interview with Matt Diehl, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2010.

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• The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Character, Tape, Noses

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.82

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• Jewel-Like the immortaldoes not boast of its length of yearsbut of the scintillating point of the moment.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Jewels, Moments, Boast

  Rabindranath Tagore, “Fireflies”

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• The greatest things in the world are brought about by other things which we count as nothing: little causes we overlook but which at length accumulate.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  World, Littles, Causes

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• After the golden age of Latinity, we gradually slide into the silver, and at length precipitately descend into the iron.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Iron, Age, Golden

  "The Literary Character, Illustrated by the History of Men of Genius". Book by Isaac D'Israeli, 1795 - 1822.

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• When we look to presumed sources of origin for competing evolutionary explanations of the giraffe's long neck, we find either nothing at all, or only the shortest of speculative conjectures. Length, of course, need not correspond with importance. Garrulous old Polonius , in a rare moment of clarity, reminded us that "brevity is the soul of wit" (and then immediately vitiated his wise observation with a flood of woolly words about Hamlet 's Madness.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Wise, Long, Soul

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• THE NINETEENTH CENTURY SPREAD OF CHRISTIANITY WAS DUE PRIMARILY TO A NEW BURST OF RELIGIOUS LIFE EMANATING FROM THE CHRISTIAN IMPULSE. . . . NEVER IN ANY CORRESPONDING LENGTH OF TIME HAD THE CHRISTIAN IMPULSE GIVEN RISE TO SO MANY NEW MOVEMENTS. NEVER HAD IT HAD QUITE SO GREAT AN EFFECT UPON WESTERN EUROPEAN PEOPLES. IT WAS FROM THIS ABOUNDING VIGOR THAT THERE ISSUED THE MISSIONARY ENTERPRISE WHICH DURING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY SO AUGMENTED THE NUMERICAL STRENGTH AND THE INFLUENCE OF CHRISTIANITY.

  Kenneth Scott Latourette

  Christian, Religious, Missionary

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• My mother took too much, a great deal too much, care of me; she over-educated, over-instructed, over-dosed me with premature lessons of prudence: she was so afraid that I should ever do a foolish thing, or not say a wise one, that she prompted my every word, and guided my every action. So I grew up, seeing with her eyes, hearing with her ears, and judging with her understanding, till, at length, it was found out that I had not eyes, ears or understanding of my own.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Wise, Mother, Eye

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1826). “Works of Maria Edgeworth: Tales of fashionable life. 1826.- -v. 7. Patronage. 1825”, p.2

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• Once to die is better than length of days in sorrow without end.

  Aeschylus

  Sorrow, Ends, Dies

  Prometheus Vinctus, l.750-1.

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• Diets show to what great lengths women will go so as not to go to great widths.

  Evan Esar

  Shows, Diets, Width

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• Unless you're fond of hollering you don't make great conversations on a running cycle. Instead you spend your time being aware of things and meditating on them. On sights and sounds, on the mood of the weather and things remembered, on the machine and the countryside you're in, thinking about things at great leisure and length without being hurried and without feeling you're losing time.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Running, Thinking, Sight

  Robert M. Pirsig (2009). “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• How delightful it is to see a friend after a length of absence! How delightful to chide him for that length of absence to which we owe such delight.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Friends, Delight, Absence

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.151

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• The shadow of a cornstalk on the ground is lovely, but it is no denial of its loveliness to see as one looks on it that it is telling the time of day, the position of the earth and the sun, the size of our planet and its shape, and perhaps even the length of its life and ours among the stars.

  Arthur Miller

  Stars, Lovely, Shadow

  Arthur Miller (2016). “The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller”, p.156, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• A man's life is like a well, not like a snake--it should be measured by its depth, not by its length.

  Austin O'Malley

  Life, Men, Snakes

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• The Fascist State lays claim to rule in the economic field no less than in others; it makes its action felt throughout the length and breadth of the country by means of its corporate, social, and educational institutions, and all the political, economic, and spiritual forces of the nation, organised in their respective associations, circulate within the State.

  Benito Mussolini

  Education, Country, Spiritual

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• So, then, Oxford Street, stonyhearted stepmother, thou that listenest to the sighs of orphans, and drinkest the tears of children, at length I was dismissed from thee.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Children, Oxford, Tears

  'Confessions of an English Opium Eater' (1822) pt. 1

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• There are few of us that are not rather ashamed of our sins and follies as we look out on the blessed morning sunlight, which comes to us like a bright-winged angel beckoning us to quit the old path of vanity that stretches its dreary length behind us.

  George Eliot

  Morning, Blessed, Angel

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.133, ShandonPress

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• Impatience asks for the impossible, wants to reach the goal without the means of getting there. The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Mean, Journey, Goal

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1990). “Preface and Introduction to The phenomenology of mind”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• The greater the length, the more beautiful will the piece be by reason of its size, provided that the whole be perspicuous.

  Aristotle

  Beautiful, Pieces, Size

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.462, Simon and Schuster

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• Mankind, I hazard, wherever found, Civilized or Savage, cannot keep to any purpose for much length of time, except the purpose of destroying himself.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Hazards, Savages, Purpose

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• Whoso has sixpence is sovereign (to the length of sixpence) over all men; commands cooks to feed him, philosophers to teach him, kings to mount guard over him,to the length of sixpence.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Kings, Men, Sovereign

  'Sartor Resartus' (1834) bk. 1, ch. 5

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