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• Hung over her enamour'd, and beheld Beauty, which, whether waking or asleep, Shot forth peculiar graces.

  John Milton

  Beauty, Grace, Waking

  John Milton (1853). “The Poetical Works of John Milton..Illustrated with Engravings from Drawings by J.M.W. Turner”, p.116

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• One may enter the literary parlor via just about any door, be it the prison door, the madhouse door, or the brothel door. There is but one door one may not enter it through, which is the child room door. The critics will never forgive you such. The great Rudyard Kipling is one of a number of people to have suffered from this. I keep wondering to myself what this peculiar contempt towards anything related to childhood is all about.

  Michael Ende

  Children, Doors, Numbers

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• The peculiar value of geography lies in its fitness to nourish the mind with ideas and furnish the imagination with pictures.

  Charlotte Mason

  Lying, Ideas, Imagination

  Charlotte Mason (2013). “Home Education”, p.199, Simon and Schuster

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• Human paleontology shares a peculiar trait with such disparate subjects as theology and extraterrestrial biology: it contains more practitioners than objects for study.

  David Pilbeam

  Paleontology, Study, Biology

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• Although as a rule the absurd culminates, and it seems impossible for the voice of the individual ever to penetrate through the chorus of foolers and fooled, still there is left to the genuine works of all times a quite peculiar, silent, slow, and powerful influence; and as if by a miracle, we see them rise at last out of the turmoil like a balloon that floats up out of the thick atmosphere of this globe into purer regions. Having once arrived there, it remains at rest, and no one can any longer draw it down again.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Powerful, Voice, Miracle

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• So overall, though my life is far from perfect, I'm contented with it. And in a peculiar way, I'm grateful for the troubling emotions I experienced. The obstacles we face in life can provide powerful incentives for change.

  Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

  Powerful, Grateful, Perfect

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• True individualists are always at odds with the universe. Set adrift by their peculiar tastes and interests, they spend their lives searching for kindred spirits and a compatible mate. They are hopelessly out of step with the business world and its trivial urgencies. Their priorities are not the priorities of their neighbors. They are unique; therefore they are alone.

  Rick Bayan

  Unique, Odds, Priorities

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• I am willing to admit that if the agriculturists are oppressed by peculiar burdens, they ought to be relieved from them, or be allowed a fair and just protection equivalent to all such peculiar burdens.

  Joseph Hume

  Protection, Burden, Relieved

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• None of that is necessary. It's not as if we're in a situation where it is us or them.There's something peculiar about talking about the moral status of animals, when we are killing and eating them for no reason whatsoever.

  Gary L. Francione

  Animal, Talking, Vegan

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• The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of a lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a conscientious detractor.

  Washington Allston

  Lying, Half, Kind

  Washington Allston, Richard Henry Dana (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.168, Scholarly Pub Office Univ of

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• [T]he Constitution ought to be the standard of construction for the laws, and that wherever there is an evident opposition, the laws ought to give place to the Constitution. But this doctrine is not deducible from any circumstance peculiar to the plan of convention, but from the general theory of a limited Constitution.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Law, Giving, Doctrine

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Quentin P. Taylor, John Jay (1998). “The essential Federalist: a new reading of the Federalist papers”, Madison House Pub

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• Among the features peculiar to the political system of the United States is the perfect equality of rights which it secures to every religious sect. [...] Equal laws protecting equal rights, are found as they ought to be presumed, the best guarantee of loyalty, and love of country; as well as best calculated to cherish that mutual respect and good will among citizens of every religious denomination which are necessary to social harmony and most favorable to the advancement of truth.

  James Madison

  Loyalty, Country, Religious

  Letter to Jacob De La Motta, printed in "Letters and Other Writings of James Madison, vol. 3" (1867), August 1820.

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• Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.

  John Dryden

  Order, Grace, Dignity

  John Dryden (1990). “The Works of John Dryden, Volume XX: Prose 1691-1698 De Arte Graphica and Shorter Works”, p.132, Univ of California Press

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• The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use. The African writer should aim to use English in a way that brings out his message best without altering the language to the extent that its value as a medium of international exchange will be lost. He should aim at fashioning out an English which is at once universal and able to carry his peculiar experience.

  Chinua Achebe

  Different, Use, World

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• A peculiar fact about termite-tapeworm-fungus-moss art is that it goes always forward, eating its own boundaries, and, likely as not, leaves nothing in its path other than the signs of eager, industrious, unkempt activity.

  Manny Farber

  Art, Moss, Path

  Manny Farber (2009). “Negative Space: Manny Farber on the Movies”, p.135, Da Capo Press

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• A form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Intellectual productiveness is one of the greatest joys - if not the greatest one - of human existence. It is not everyone who can write a play, or build a bridge, or even make a good joke. But in chess everyone can, everyone must be intellectually productive, and so can share in this select delight. I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess, just as I would pity the man who has remained ignorant of love. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Lying, Writing, Men

  Siegbert Tarrasch (2012). “The Game of Chess”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• Chess is a form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Lying, Men, Like Love

  The Game of Chess ch. 9 (1931)

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• I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a long time a subject which possessed me, a model which inspired me, a predecessor who attracted me, until at length, after I had molded it

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Long, Mind

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• If the exigencies of my country demand a peculiar service, its claims to perform that service are imperious.

  Nathan Hale

  Country, Demand, Claims

  "Nathan Hale: The Life and Death of America's First Spy". Book by M. William Phelps, 2015.

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• Discipline brings us effort, sacrifice and suffering. Later it brings us something of an inestimable value: something of which those who live only for pleasure, profit or amusement will always be deprived. This peculiar indefinable joy which one must have felt oneself to understand is the sign with which life marks its moment of triumph.

  Alexis Carrel

  Sacrifice, Discipline, Joy

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• When thus the heart is in a vein Of tender thought, the simplest strain Can touch it with peculiar power.

  Charles Lamb

  Heart, Power, Veins

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• Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.

  Remy de Gourmont

  Drinking, Aberration, Chastity

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• It is the peculiar province of the legislature to prescribe general rules for the government of society; the application of those rules to individuals in society would seem to be the duty of other departments.

  John Marshall

  Government, Individual, Legislature

  John Marshall, Joseph Potter Cotton (2000). “The Constitutional Decisions of John Marshall”, p.245, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• Every writer making a secondary world wishes in some measure to be a real maker, or hopes that he is drawing on reality: hopes that the peculiar quality of this secondary world (if not all the details) are derived from Reality, or are flowing into it.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Real, Drawing, Wish

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• But the Chief Justice says, 'There must be an ultimate arbiter somewhere.' True, there must; but does that prove it is either party? The ultimate arbiter is the people of the Union, assembled by their deputies in convention, at the call of Congress or of two-thirds of the States. Let them decide to which they mean to give an authority claimed by two of their organs. And it has been the peculiar wisdom and felicity of our Constitution, to have provided this peaceable appeal, where that of other nations is at once to force.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Party, Mean, Two

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont”, p.298

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