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• If you pluck out my heart To find what makes it move, You’ll halt the clock That syncopates our love.

  Sylvia Plath

  Moving, Heart, Our Love

  Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.285, Faber & Faber

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• This hill though high I covent ascend; The difficulty will not me offend; For I perceive the way of life lies here. Come, pluck up, heart; let's neither faint nor fear.

  John Bunyan

  Lying, Heart, Way

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• Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Fruit, Youth

  Alexandre Dumas (2003). “The Count of Monte Cristo”, p.216, Bantam Classics

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• I don’t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you.

  Oscar Wilde

  Writing, Heart, Forgiving

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.94, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Alice! A childish story take,
  And with a gentle hand,
  Lay it where Childhood's dreams are twined
  In Memory's mystic band,
  Like pilgrim's withered wreath of flowers
  Plucked in far-off land.

  Lewis Carroll

  Dream, Memories, Flower

  Lewis Carroll (2012). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and What the Tortoise Said to Achilles and Other Riddles”, p.10, Graphic Arts Books

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• Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, O’er a plan to venge myself upon that cursed Thursday Next- This Eyre affair, so surprising, gives my soul such loath despising, Here I plot my temper rising, rising from my jail of text. “Get me out!” I said, advising, “Pluck me from this jail of text- or I swear I’ll wring your neck!

  Jasper Fforde

  Jail, Giving, Soul

  "The Eyre Affair: Thursday Next". Book by Jasper Fforde, May 1, 2009.

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• ...the reader who plucks a book from her shelf only once is as deprived as the listener who, after attending a single performance of a Beethoven symphony, never hears it again.

  Anne Fadiman

  Book, Symphony, Shelves

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• Child, that is why all the rest are now a horror to her. That is what happens to those who pluck and eat fruits at the wrong time and in the wrong way. Oh, the fruit is good, but they loath it ever after.

  C. S. Lewis

  Children, Nephew, Way

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol VI: The Magician's Nephew”, p.136, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• Images flicker, each one bringing its own sorrow or its own smile. Sometimes both. At the very worst, an impenetrable and sightless black and at best, a happiness so bright that it hurts the eyes to see, coming and going on some unseen projector perpetually turned by an invisible hand. One, then another. The hollow click of the shutter. Now stop. Freeze this frame. Pluck it down and hold it close and be damned by what you see. Henri always said: the price of a memory is the memory if the sorrow it brings.

  Pittacus Lore

  Hurt, Memories, Eye

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• I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall; I'll slay more gazers than the basalisks; I'll play the orator as well as Nestor, Decieve more slily that Ulysses could, And like a Sinon, take another Troy. I can add colors to the chameleon, Change shapes with Proteus for advantages And set the murderous Machiavel to school. Can I do this, and cannot get a crown? Tut! were it further off, I'll pluck it down.

  William Shakespeare

  School, Color, Play

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• My fingers positively itched to drift at length along their spines, to arrive at one whose lure I could not pass, to pluck it down, to inch it open, then to close my eyes and inhale the soul-sparking scent of old and literate dust.

  Kate Morton

  Eye, Dust, Soul

  Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• They do not know what they say. If it came to a conflict of arms, the war will last at least four years. Northern politicians will not appreciate the determination and pluck of the South, and Southern politicians do not appreciate the numbers, resources, and patient perseverance of the North. Both sides forget that we are all Americans. I foresee that our country will pass through a terrible ordeal, a necessary expiation, perhaps, for our national sins.

  Robert E. Lee

  Country, Perseverance, Determination

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• Prayer pulls the rope below and the great bell rings above in the ears of God. Some scarcely stir the bell, for they pray so languidly. Others give but an occasional pluck at the rope. But he who wins with heaven is the man who grasps the rope boldly and pulls continuously, with all his might.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Prayer, Motivation

  Charles Spurgeon, T. De Witt Talmage, Henry Ward Beecher, D. L. Moody, Joseph Parker (2017). “Gems of Truth & Beauty”, p.192, Gideon House Books

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• The care of God for us is a great thing, if a man believe it at heart: it plucks the burden of sorrow from him.

  Euripides

  Believe, Heart, Men

  Euripides (1942). “Euripides”

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• 'T is hers to pluck the amaranthine flower Of faith, and round the sufferer's temples bind Wreaths that endure affliction's heaviest shower, And do not shrink from sorrow's keenest wind.

  William Wordsworth

  Faith, Flower, Wind

  William Wordsworth (1851). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth ...”, p.180

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• Personality is that which is most intimate to me—that by which I must act out my life. It is that by which I belong to man, that by which I amable to reach after God; and He has given to me this pearl of great  price. It is an immortal treasure; it is mine, it is His, and no man shall pluck it out of His hand.

  Hugh Reginald Haweis

  Men, Hands, Personality

  Hugh Reginald Haweis (1875). “Speech in Season”, p.307

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• Anyone can pluck a flowertrue strength is knowing how to give it life

  Aprilynne Pike

  Knowing, Giving, True Strength

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• Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Children, Men, Good Man

  Oliver Goldsmith (1806). “The Poetical Works”, p.31

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• What if I could give you your life back; pluck out the pain; and give you a world of unimaginable beauty that would be for all time.

  Anne Rice

  Beauty, Pain, Giving

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• Always, when you know what you don't want, that's when the rocket of desire is born of what you do want. That is the fruit of your experience. Now pluck it and savor it and enjoy it. Visualize it, and find the feeling place of it. And live happily ever after, once you get the hang of this.

  Esther Hicks

  Happiness, Law Of Attraction, Feelings

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• You have to have hope. Otherwise, I don't think you could handle it. Of course, you have to have both luck and pluck to make it.

  Clyde Tombaugh

  Thinking, Luck, Anticipation

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• Life is brimming with things to be discovered and known, skills to be mastered, challenges to be overcome. And when you are discouraged, dig a hole in the earth and think of the possibilities. So many things can be planted in your lifetime, skills that once mastered will bear fruit forever. . . . Pluck up some enthusiasm for the business of life, for the loamy matter that supports us all. Become a handyman and spread your skills wide, digging deeper into the earth's crust to uncover its secrets.

  Christopher Kimball

  Life, Thinking, Skills

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• God is no White Knight who charges into the world to pluck us like distressed damsels from the jaws of dragons, or diseases. God chooses to become present to and through us. It is up to us to rescue one another.

  Nancy Mairs

  God, Knights, Dragons

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• ... the most fiendish plant I know of, the sort of thing Beelzebub might pluck to make a bouquet for his mother-in-law ... it looks as if it had been made out of a sow's ear for the spathe, and the tail of a rat that died of Elephantiasis for the spadix. The whole thing is mingling of unwholesome greens, livid purples, and pallid pinks, the livery of putrescence in fact, and it possesses and odour to match the colouring.

  Edward Augustus Bowles

  Mother, Nature, Flower

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• If you follow the course of one man through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get some nourishment from it.

  Cennino Cennini

  Flower, Men, Hands

  "Il libro dell' arte".

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