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• Though cares and sorrows e'er must come, Though heart be rent, I know that God will give me strength, When mine is spent.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  God, Heart, Giving

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• Those two fatal words, Mine and Thine.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Two

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.58, Wordsworth Editions

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• Work alone isn't enough for me and mine; we know how to break our backs, but the great dream Of my fathers was to be good at doing nothing.

  Cesare Pavese

  Dream, Father, Work

  Cesare Pavese, Geoffrey Brock (2002). “Disaffections: complete poems 1930-1950”, Copper Canyon Pr

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• We are all born with a rut radar. Mine is finely wired, a little oversensitive maybe. Perhaps just a bit hyperactive. Twenty steady boyfriends before turning 16, a new best friend 12 times a year, switched college majors every time I met someone who seemed exactly like the sort of person I really, really wanted to be. I'm not fickle. I'm just never there yet.

  Fran Lebowitz

  College, Years, Twenties

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “Tales From A Broad: An Unreliable Memoir”, p.6, Monsoon Books

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• O little souls! as pure as white And crystalline as rays of light Direct from heaven, their source divine; Refracted through the mist of years, How red my setting sun appears, How lurid looks this soul of mine!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Years, White, Light

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.331

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• Garde-toi, tant que tu vivras, De juger des gens sur la mine. Beware as long as you live, Of judging others according to appearance alone.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Long, Judging, Appearance

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• Is a park any better than a coal mine? What's a mountain got that a slag pile hasn't? What would you rather have in your garden--an almond tree or an oil well?

  Jean Giraudoux

  Garden, Oil, Tree

  Jean Giraudoux (1974). “The Madwoman of Chaillot: Comedy in Two Acts”, p.14, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Good even, good fair moon, good even to thee. I prithee, dear moon, now show to me the form and the features, the speech and degree, of the man that true lover of mine shall be.

  Walter Scott

  Moon, Men, Degrees

  Walter Scott (1826). “Poetical Works Complete in One Volume”, p.352

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• I'm no reformer; for I see more lightThan darkness in the world; mine eyes are quickTo catch the first dim radiance of the dawn,And slow to note the cloud that threatens storm.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Eye, Clouds, Darkness

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.556, Delphi Classics

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• For me, what is most important is the element of surprise. If I can surprise you with every film of mine, that is exactly what I am trying to do.

  Arjun Rampal

  Important, Trying, Elements

  "A Minute With: Arjun Rampal on 'Satyagraha'". Interview with Shilpa Jamkhandikar, in.reuters.com. August 21, 2013.

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• In the condition of men, it frequently happens that grief and anxiety lie hid under the golden robes of prosperity; and the gloom of calamity is cheered by secret radiations of hope and comfort; as in the works of nature, the bog is sometimes covered with flowers, and the mine concealed in the barren crags.

  Samuel Johnson

  Lying, Flower, Grief

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: with Murphy's essay”, p.33

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• A friend of mine who writes history books said to me that he thought that the two creatures most to be pitied were the spider and the novelist - their lives hanging by a thread spun out of their own guts. But in some ways I think writers of fiction are the creatures most to be envied, because who else besides the spider is allowed to take that fragile thread and weave it into a pattern? What a gift of grace to be able to take the chaos from within and from it to create some semblance of order.

  Katherine Paterson

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• When I think about my father, the first image that comes to mind is holding his hand as he drove me to the train station six weeks before he died; I had never noticed how beautiful his hands were until I saw them, for the first and last time, entwined in mine.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Beautiful, Father, Thinking

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (1999). “Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self”, G K Hall & Company

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• The perverseness of my fate is such that he's not mine because he's mine too much.

  John Dryden

  Fate, Too Much, Perverseness

  John Dryden, Paul Hammond, David Hopkins (2007). “Dryden: Selected Poems”, p.746, Pearson Education

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• Wherever is love and loyalty, great purposes and lofty souls, even though in a hovel or a mine, there is fairyland.

  Charles Kingsley

  Loyalty, Soul, Purpose

  Charles Kingsley (1855). “Westward ho!: The voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of Her Most Glorious Majesty Queen Elizabeth”, p.180

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• My forces are not enfeebled, I find no decay in my strength; my provisions are not cut off, I find no abhorring in mine appetite; my counsels are not corrupted nor infatuated, I find no false apprehensions to work upon mine understanding; and yet they see that invisibly, and I feel that insensibly, the disease prevails.

  Bill Vaughan

  Cutting, Understanding, Decay

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• Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine,
  Earth for whose use? Pride answers, 'Tis for mine
  For me kind nature wakes her genial power,
  Suckles each herb, and spreads out every flower.

  Alexander Pope

  Flower, Pride, Shining

  Alexander Pope (1807). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.5

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• Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures, Russet lawns and fallows grey, Where the nibbling flocks do stray, Mountains on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest; Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide.

  John Milton

  Eye, Rivers, Clouds

  c.1631 L'Allegro, l.69-76.

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• And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voiced choir below, In service high, and anthems clear As may, with sweetness, through mine ear Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all heaven before mine eyes.

  John Milton

  Religious, Eye, Blow

  'Il Penseroso' (1645) l. 157

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• God is thy law, thou mine.

  John Milton

  Law, Paradise Lost Book 9, Paradise Lost Book 2

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 637

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• Gems, in fact, are a species of mineral flowers; they are the blossoms of the dark, hard mine; and what they want in perfume, they make up in durability.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Flower, Dark, Rocks

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.630, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• And I will trust that He who heeds
  The life that hides in mead and wold,
  Who hangs you alder's crimson beads,
  And stains these mosses green and gold,
  Will still, as He hath done, incline
  His gracious care to me and mine.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Gold, Moss, Done

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1895). “The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier”

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• Love says, mine. Love says, I could eat you up. Love says, stay as you are, be my own private thing, don't you dare have ideas I don't share. Love has just got to gobble the other, bones and all, crunch. I don't want to do that. I sure don't want it done to me!

  Marge Piercy

  Ideas, Done, Want

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Braided Lives”, p.85, PM Press

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• That dog is mine said those poor children; that place in the sun is mine; such is the beginning and type of usurpation throughout the earth.
  [Fr., Ce chien est a moi, disaient ces pauvres enfants; c'est la ma place au soleil. Voila le commencement et l'image de l'usurpation de toute la terre.]

  Blaise Pascal

  Dog, Children, Earth

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• Be it mine to draw from wisdom's fount, pure as it flows, that calm of soul which virtue only knows.

  Aeschylus

  Soul, Flow, Calm

  Aeschylus (1821). “The tragedies of Aeschylus”, p.167

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