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• I take a lull from my CamelBak and choke at its potency. It tastes like bad decisions. It's perfect.

  Tucker Max

  Perfect, Decision, Taste

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• And of poetry, the success is not attained when it lulls and satisfies, but when it astonishes and fires us with new endeavours after the unattainable.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fire, Poetry, Unattainable

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.83

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• Dominicus Corea had a posthumous son, Lewis Corea who became the Dissawe of Uva. Sir Paul Peiris wrote that `With the disappearance of Dominicus Corea, came a short lull in military operations of which the Portuguese officials availed themselves to give free rein to that rapacity which so frequently disgraced their careers in the East'. Dominicus Corea was succeeded by his brother Simon, as Dissawe of the Sat Korale, Kotte and Sitawaka.

  Dominicus Corea

  Brother, Military, Son

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• Tis reason's part
  To govern and to guard the heart,
  To lull the wayward soul to rest,
  When hopes and fears distract the breast;
  Reason may calm this doubtful strife,
  And steer thy bark through various life.

  Nathaniel Cotton

  Heart, Soul, May

  Nathaniel Cotton (1812). “The Poetical Works of Nathaniel Cotton: Collated with the Best Editions”, p.77

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• The most that can be said of flattery is that it is sometimes a cheap psychological trick with which charlatans and dishonest people lull others into a state of carelessness while they pick their pockets.

  Napoleon Hill

  People, Pockets, Flattery

  Napoleon Hill (2009). “How To Sell Your Way Through Life”, p.20, John Wiley and Sons

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• And Love, our light at night and shade at noon,Lulls us to rest with songs, and turns awayAll shafts of shelterless tumultuous day.

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  Song, Night, Light

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1902). “The House of Life: A Sonnet-sequence”, p.12, Library of Alexandria

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• The art of a news reporter is to learn how to lull a victim, because all good reporters are confidence tricksters in embryo.

  Derek Tangye

  Art, News, Journalism

  "The Way to Minack". Book by Derek Tangye, 1968.

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• It is the north wind that lashes men into Vikings; it is the soft, luscious south wind which lulls them to lotus dreams.

  Ouida

  Dream, Motivation, Adversity

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• The wind has a language, I would I could learn!
  Sometimes 'tis soothing, and sometimes 'tis stern,
  Sometimes it comes like a low sweet song,
  And all things grow calm, as the sound floats along,
  And the forest is lull'd by the dreamy strain,
  And slumber sinks down on the wandering main,
  And its crystal arms are folded in rest,
  And the tall ship sleeps on its heaving breast.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Song, Sweet, Sleep

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• Whatever amuses, serves to kill time, to lull the faculties, and to banish reflection. Whatever entertains, usually awakens the understanding or gratifies the fancy. Whatever diverts, is lively in its nature, and sometimes tumultuous in its effects.

  George Crabbe

  Reflection, Understanding, Fancy

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• Lull'd in the countless chambers of the brain,
  Our thoughts are link'd by many a hidden chain;
  Awake but one, and lo, what myriads rise!
  Each stamps its image as the other flies!

  Samuel Rogers

  Brain, Links, Stamps

  Samuel Rogers (1802). “The Pleasures of Memory ... By the author of "An Ode to Superstition, with some other poems" i.e. Samuel Rogers . Fourth edition”, p.14

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• Between highway sounds I heard waves and thought how the curve of the coastline here had sheltered and nurtured live-born sharks, humans, and migrating whales. Here, at the edge of the continent, time and distance stopped; in the lull between sets of waves I could get a fresh start.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Distance, Ocean, Curves

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• Fame lulls the fever of the soul, and makes Us feel that we have grasp'd an immortality.

  Joaquin Miller

  Soul, Fever, Fame

  Joaquin Miller (1871). “Songs of the Sierras”, p.118

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• The strongest and most evil spirits have to date advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions - all orderly arranged society lulls the passions to sleep; they always reawakened the sense of comparison, of contradiction, of delight in the new, the adventurous, the untried; they compelled men to set opinion against opinion, ideal plan against ideal plan.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Sleep, Passion

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• I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Motivational, Congratulations

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.55, Bantam

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• We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is so beautiful and so solemn. Beauty exalts, but beauty also lulls. Early associations endear, but they also confuse. Through that beautiful solemnity, the transporting or horrifying realities of which the Book tells may come to us blunted and disarmed, and we may only sigh with tranquil veneration when we ought to be burning with shame, or struck dumb with terror, or carried out of ourselves by ravishing hopes and adorations.

  C. S. Lewis

  Beautiful, Bible, Book

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• Time passes. Even when it seems impossible. Even when each tick of the second hand aches like the pulse of blood behind a bruise. It passes unevenly, in strange lurches and dragging lulls, but pass it does. Even for me.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Blood, Hands, Pulse

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “New Moon”, p.60, Hachette UK

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• Life - give me life until the end,
  That at the very top of being,
  The battle-spirit shouting in my blood,
  Out of the reddest hell of the fight
  I may be snatched and flung
  Into the everlasting lull,
  The immortal, incommunicable dream.

  William Ernest Henley

  Life, Dream, Fighting

  William Ernest Henley (1893). “London Voluntaries ; The Song of the Sword, and Other Verses”, London : D. Nutt

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• This story never really had a point. It’s just a lull - a skip in the record. We are addresses in ghost towns. We are old wishes that never came true. We are hand grenades (and every word you say pulls the pin). We are all gods, we are all monsters.

  Pete Wentz

  Hands, Wish, Monsters

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• I noticed, as I had done before, that there was a lull among the mosquitoes about midnight, and that they began again in the morning. Nature is thus merciful. But apparently they need rest as well as we.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Morning, Midnight

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “The Maine Woods”, p.291

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• Words can be twisted into any shape. Promises can be made to lull the heart and seduce the soul. In the final analysis, words mean nothing. They are labels we give things in an effort to wrap our puny little brains around their underlying natures, when ninety-nine percent of the time the totality of the reality is an entirely different beast. The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Life, Mean, Heart

  FaceBook post by Karen Marie Moning from Mar 20, 2014

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• The car picked up speed, and the sound seemed to lull me.I could relax, I thought as I felt the tingling of circulation in my limbs. I was in Trent’s car, wrapped in a blanket, and held in his arms. He wouldn’t let anything hurt me. He wasn’t singing, though,I mused.Shouldn’t he be singing?

  Kim Harrison

  Hurt, Car, Singing

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• Sometimes between lunch and dinner, when there's a lull, Jill and Shaniqua and I will sit around and fantasize about what we'd do if a REAL celebrity walked into the place, like Chad Michael Murray (although we've gone off him a bit since his divorce) or Jared Padalecki, or even Prince William (you never know. He could have gotten his yacht lost, or whatever.)

  Meg Cabot

  Real, Divorce, Lunch

  Meg Cabot (2009). “Pants on Fire”, p.3, Harper Collins

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