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• Fools are very often united in the strictest intimacies, as the lighter kinds of woods are the most closely glued together.

  William Shenstone

  Together, Woods, Fool

  William Shenstone (1868). “Essays on men and manners”, p.231

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• My soul, what's lighter than a feather? Wind.
  Than wind? The fire. And what than fire? The mind.
  What's lighter than the mind? A thought. Than thought?
  This bubble world. What than this bubble? Nought.

  Francis Quarles

  Fire, Wind, Soul

  Francis Quarles, William Walker Wilkins (1866). “Emblems, Divine and Moral: The School of the Heart ; And, Hieroglyphics of the Life of Man”, p.15

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• None of my clients are criminals, but to a much lighter degree that's what goes on. I hear the story, and I hear it with the level of detail that breeds empathy.

  Hilary Liftin

  Empathy, Criminals, Degrees

  "'Getting to Take on That Life Temporarily'". Interview with Kathryn Borel, Jr., logger.believermag.com. July 21, 2015.

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• Some people are afraid of generosity. They feel they will be taken advantage of or oppressed. In cultivating generosity, we are only oppressing our greed and attachment. This allows our true nature to come out and become lighter and freer.

  Ajahn Chah

  Nature, Taken, Attachment

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• When the mind is totally present, it is relaxed, nimble, and sensitive. It feels lighter and clearer. It notices everything, but it is not distracted by anything. It is the feeling of knowing exactly where you are and what you are doing.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Knowing, Feelings, Mind

  Sakyong Mipham (2012). “Running with the Mind of Meditation: Lessons for Training Body and Mind”, p.152, Harmony

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• I loved dancing with a delirious 'I wish I could die' passion, especially when the music appealed to me ... but alas! only one in ten partners had any notion of time, and what made it worse, the nine were always behind, never before the beat. ... Sometimes I would firmly seize smaller, lighter partners by the scruff of the neck, so to speak, and whirl them along in the way they should go, but I saw they were not enjoying themselves, and oddly enough I wanted these wretches to like dancing with me.

  Ethel Smyth

  Dance, Passion, Dancing

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• A frequent change of role, and of the lighter sort - especially such as one does not like forcing one's self to use the very utmost of his ability in the performance of - is the training requisite for a mastery of the actor's art.

  Edwin Booth

  Art, Self, Training

  Edwin Booth, Edwina Booth Grossman (1894). “Edwin Booth: Recollections by His Daughter, Edwina Booth Grossmann, and Letters to Her and to His Friends”, New York : Century Company

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• We are commanded to love God with all our strength, heart, mind and soul and our neighbor in the same way God loves us - it is the same love flowing between God and the soul - the soul and its neighbor. It is difficult, but the burden of the cross is light compared to the cross of uncontrolled emotions, anger, insistence on one's own opinion, the frustration of trying to change others rather than being changed oneself, resentment, regrets and guilt. Accepting the present moment like Jesus did is certainly a lighter burden.

  Mother Angelica

  Jesus, Regret, Heart

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• Christ took hold of the work of the world's saving in a larger way than it is possible for us to do, and therefore the burden of His undertaking came upon Him in a heavier, wider, and more crushing way than it can come upon us; and therefore, while it overwhelmed Him in sorrow, our smaller mission and lighter task can with entire propriety leave us buoyant and gladsome.

  Charles Henry Parkhurst

  Crush, Friday, Sorrow

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• Like many musicians, I can hear the weight in the sound. Sound is matter. We speak of the colour of an instrument, of transparency... We can demand more sombre or lighter colours, deeper playing and singing, heavier or lighter sound. And manipulating those means is like creating a painting.

  Laurence Equilbey

  Mean, Creating, Singing

  "There Will Be Joy". Interview with Lydia Perović, logger.believermag.com. August 1, 2013.

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• It is technology. They all changed to a harder golf ball, so they gave up spinning on the greens. They all changed to longer drivers, bigger heads with hotter faces and lighter shafts. The problem is, the harder you hit it, the more control you lose.

  Tiger Woods

  Golf, Technology, Balls

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• If beer got any lighter you could raise goldfish in it.

  Jerry Adler

  Beer, Goldfish, Modern Life

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• Trifles lighter than straws are levers in the building up of character.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Character, Building Up, Levers

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1848). “Gems from Tupper: Consisting of Extracts from the Following Works: Proverbial Philosophy; Thousand Lines; Twins; Hactenus; An Authr's Mind; Geraldine, and Other Poems; Heart; Crock of Gold; and Probabilities, an Aid to Faith”, p.189

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• Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather: injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.

  Plautus

  Men, Wrath, Giving

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• In some circles where very heavy people think they have very heavy brains, words like "charming" and "clever" and "pretty" are all put-downs; all the lighter things in life, which are the most important things, are put down.

  Andy Warhol

  Clever, Thinking, Things In Life

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.82, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Fairy folk a-listening Hear the seed sprout in the spring, And for music to their dance Hear the hedgerows wake from trance, Sap that trembles into buds Sending little rhythmic floods Of fairy sound in fairy ears. Thus all beauty that appears Has birth as sound to finer sense And lighter-clad intelligence.

  George Eliot

  Spring, Listening, Sound

  George Eliot (2006). “Daniel Deronda: Easyread Edition”, p.346, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Nothing which consists of corporeal matter is absolutely light, but that is comparatively lighter which is rarer, either by its own nature, or by accidental heat. And it is not to be thought that light bodies are escaping to the surface of the universe while they are carried upwards, or that they are not attracted by the earth. They are attracted, but in a less degree, and so are driven outwards by the heavy bodies; which being done, they stop, and are kept by the earth in their own place.

  Johannes Kepler

  Light, Escaping, Done

  "Kepler" by Walter William Bryant, (p. 36), 1920.

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• It's important to maintain an attractive smile as you age. A lighter, less beige, more white tooth color is key, but no Chiclets.

  Evelyn Lauder

  Keys, Color, White

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• When you start your meditation, picture a beautiful blue sky without any clouds in it. Feel that your body is growing lighter. Visualize that you are floating in the sky and that all tension, fatigue, worry and problems have left you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beautiful, Clouds, Blue

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• A greater Quantity of some things may be eaten than of others, some being of lighter Digestion than others.

  Benjamin Franklin

  May, Digestion, Quantity

  Benjamin Franklin (1839). “Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin”, p.39

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• I am trying to get my paintings a bit lighter in tone, as some of my recent oils have been mistaken for night scenes.

  E. J. Hughes

  Night, Oil, Trying

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• The shirt may be cut slimmer or looser, the suit might be darker or lighter, the sneakers might not have laces, but you're still talking about shirts and suits and sneakers.

  John Varvatos

  Cutting, Sneakers, Talking

  "Designer Profile: John Varvatos's Expanded Stage". www.esquire.com. May 31, 2012.

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• I wake up fairly early every day, by 8, for sure. Sunday is a lighter writing day than the weekdays, but I still wake up and write for about an hour, beginning right around 8. I definitely have coffee first, and then I start writing. I do think it's kind of hard to get the right level of concentration without coffee.

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Coffee, Writing, Sunday

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• For hevene myghte nat holden it, so was it hevy of hymself,Til it hadde of the erthe eten his fille.And whan it hadde of this fold flessh and blood taken,Was nevere leef upon lynde lighter therafter,And portatif and persaunt as the point of a nedle,That myghte noon armure it lette ne none heighe walles.Forthi is love ledere of the Lordes folk of hevene,And a meene, as the mair is, [inmiddes] the kyng and the commune.

  William Langland

  Taken, Blood, Noon

  William Langland (1856). “The Vision and Creed of Piers Ploughman”, p.24

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• If liberals can seize our guns because they are dangerous, we have no chance of holding on to our cars and our homes. The total number of accidental fatalities (the majority of which are hunting accidents) of all types of firearms is infinitesimal compared to the number of fatalities from car and home accidents. More children die from playing with cigarette lighters than from playing with loaded guns.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Children, Home, Gun

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