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• In April the sweet showers fall And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all The veins are bathed in liquor of such power As brings about the engendering of the flower.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Sweet, Spring, Flower

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1966). “The Canterbury Tales”

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• This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.

  T. S. Eliot

  Joy, Painful, Moments

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• This is the bravo’s dance, the water dance, swift and sudden. All men are made of water, do you know this? When you pierce them, the water leaks out and they die.

  George R. R. Martin

  Men, Water, Made

  George R. R. Martin (2003). “A Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One”, p.234, Bantam

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• The work of the painter, the poet or the musician, like the myths and symbols of the savage, ought to be seen by us, if not as a superior form of knowledge, at least as the most fundamental and the only one really common to us all; scientific thought is merely the sharp point more penetrating because it has been whetted on the stone of fact, but at the cost of some loss of substance and its effectiveness is to be explained by its power to pierce sufficiently deeply for the main body of the tool to follow the head.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Loss, Effectiveness, Musician

  Claude Levi-Strauss (2012). “Tristes Tropiques”, p.121, Penguin

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• Give me mine angle, we'll to th' river: there, My music playing far off, I will betray Tawny-finned fishes. My bended hook shall pierce Their slimy jaws; and as I draw them up, I'll think them every one an Antony, And say, 'Ah, ha! are caught!'

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, Lakes, Sea

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 2, sc. 5, l. 10

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• Even irrefutable evidence is rarely enough to pierce the mental armor of self-justification.

  Carol Tavris

  Self, Armor, Enough

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• A violent act pierces the atmosphere, leaving a hole through which the cold, damp draft of its memory blows forever.

  Jane Stanton Hitchcock

  Memories, Blow, Violent Acts

  Jane Stanton Hitchcock (2003). “Trick of the Eye”, Miramax Books

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• Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark, when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.

  John Bunyan

  Air, Easy, Mark

  John Bunyan (1850). “The Riches of Bunyan”, p.481

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• Except perhaps to our God, we all have a facade, even to our closest friends; some of us even to ourselves. . . . . It may not be good that we have it, but I don't believe the state or anyone else has a right to pierce that facade without the individual's consent.

  Melvin Belli

  Friendship, Believe, Individuality

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• Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out.

  John Milton

  Long, Soul, Pageantry

  'L'Allegro' (1645) l. 125

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• My neighbor Alice Pierce is fond of singing folk music to her garden plants. Thinks it makes them grow or something. The Major had often wondered how a wailing rendition of 'Greensleeves' would encourage greater raspberry production but Alice insisted that it worked far better than chemical fertilizers, and she did produce several kinds of fruit in pie-worthy quantitites. No sense of pitch, but plenty of enthusiasm, he added.

  Helen Simonson

  Music, Garden, Thinking

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• Beauty is the arrowhead of evangelization, the point with which the evangelist pierces the minds and hearts of those he evangelizes.

  Robert Barron

  Faith, Inspiration, Heart

  FaceBook post by Bishop Robert Barron from Jul 22, 2014

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• You can easily tell when someone has been hit by a spear. he turns a deep shade of bitter. David never got hit. Gradually, he learned a very well-kept secret...
  One, never learn anything about the fashionable, easily mastered art of spear throwing. Two, stay out of the company of all spear throwers. And three, keep your mouth tightly closed.
  In this way, spears will never touch you, even when they pierce your heart.

  Gene Edwards

  Art, Two, Secret

  "A Tale of Three Kings". Book by Gene Edwards, 1980.

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• If you want to write, find your splinter. Find the thing that pierces you and won't let you go.

  Megan McDonald

  Writing, Splinters, Want

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• I feel very honored to be playing with Bill Pierce. He's such a great musician.

  Kevin Eubanks

  Musician, Bills, Great Music

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• No .... holy father, throw away that thought.
  Believe not that the dribbling dart of love
  Can pierce a complete bosom.

  William Shakespeare

  Relationship, Father, Believe

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.28

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• A relentless barrage of 'why’s' is the best way to prepare your mind to pierce the clouded veil of thinking caused by the status quo.  Use it often.

  Shigeo Shingo

  Thinking, Mind, Use

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• Exhaustion has a way of parting the veils between men, not so much because the effort of censoring their words exceeds them, but because weariness is the foe of volatility. Oft times insults that would pierce the wakeful simply thud against the sleepless and fatigued.

  R. Scott Bakker

  Men, Effort, Veils

  R. Scott Bakker (2012). “The White-Luck Warrior: Book Two”, p.127, The Overlook Press

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• Loving a holy God is beyond our moral power. The only kind of God we can love by our sinful nature is an unholy god, an idol made by our own hands. Unless we are born of the Spirit of God, unless God sheds His holy love in our hearts, unless He stoops in His grace to change our hearts, we will not love Him... To love a holy God requires grace, grace strong enough to pierce our hardened hearts and awaken our moribund souls.

  R. C. Sproul

  Strong, Heart, Hands

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• Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.

  George Santayana

  Soul, Body, Spirituality

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.150, Рипол Классик

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• We've the new hard-steel, though why they're all so hot to pay twice the price when men're soft as clay and even wood will pierce the boldest belly, I can't say.

  Janet Morris

  Nature, War, Men

  Janet Morris (2011). “Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko”, p.187, Paradise Publishing

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• And from the phlox and mignonette Rich attars drift on every hand; And when star-vestured twilight comes The pale moths weave a saraband. And crickets in the aisles of grass With their clear fifing pierce the hush; And somewhere you many hear anear The passion of the hermit thrush.

  Clinton Scollard

  Stars, Twilight, Sunset

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• Never did Poesy appear So full of heaven to me, as when I saw how it would pierce through pride and fear To the lives of coarsest men.

  James Russell Lowell

  Pride, Men, Poetry

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.40

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• To become romantic artists, we must pierce the armor that hides our hearts, and the piercing is not comfortable.

  Marianne Williamson

  Heart, Artist, Armor

  "Enchanted Love". www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• It was great fun working with Pierce [Brosnan]. He taught me a lot in terms of professionalism and how to take care of yourself on these action movies. They're fairly long shoots and they're fairly physical and fairly emotional, so you have to maintain yourself and make sure you can make it all the way through. That's something I learned from him.

  Luke Bracey

  Fun, Emotional, Long

  Source: collider.com

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