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• If we tire of the saints, Shakspeare is our city of refuge.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Cities, Saint, Tire

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.352

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• Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.

  Democritus

  Education, Ornaments, Unfortunate

  "Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers: A Complete Translation of the Fragments in Diels Fragmente Der Vorsokratiker", translated by Kathleen Freeman, Harvard University Press, (p. 161), 1948.

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• Theatre supposes lives that are poor and agitated, a people searching in dreams for a refuge from thought. If we were happier and freer we should not feel hungry for theatre. A people that is happy and free has need of festivities more than of theatres; it will always see in itself the finest spectacle.

  Romain Rolland

  Dream, People, Theatre

  "Le Théâtre du peuple". Book by Romain Rolland, 1903.

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• Houses aren't refuges from history. They are where history ends up.

  Bill Bryson

  House, Ends

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• The reservedness and distance that fathers keep, often deprive their sons of that refuge which would be of more advantage to them than an hundred rebukes or chidings.

  John Locke

  Father, Distance, Son

  John Locke, Ruth Weissbourd Grant, Nathan Tarcov (1996). “Some Thoughts Concerning Education: And, Of the Conduct of the Understanding”, Hackett Publishing

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• When science drove the gods out of nature, they took refuge in poetry and the porticos of civic buildings.

  Mason Cooley

  Building, Civics

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• An individual dies ... when, instead of taking risks and hurling himself toward being, he cowers within, and takes refuge there.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Risk, Individual, Hurling

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• Truth, but not the whole truth, must be the invariable principle of every man who hath either religion, honour, or prudence. Thosewho violate it, may be cunning, but they are not able. Lies and perfidy are the refuge of fools and cowards.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Truth, Lying, Men

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.298, OUP Oxford

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• A musical theme once exhausted, finds its due refuge and repose in silence.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Silence, Musical, Exhausted

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• What is certainty but the refuge of those whose faith is not strong enough to entertain doubt.

  Robert Breault

  Faith, Strong, Doubt

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• Surrender is the path to freedom through our unique authenticity, where we experience the flow of life not through the narrow lens of the mind, but through the vast refuge of the heart.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Life, Freedom, Heart

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• I did not understand that she was hiding her feelings under irony, that this is usually the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded, and that their pride makes them refuse to surrender till the last moment and shrink from giving expression to their feelings before you. to have guessed the truth from the timidity with which she had repeatedly approached her sarcasm, only bringing herself to utter it at last with an effort.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Pride, Sarcasm, Expression

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• If we are to have a culture as resilient and competent in the face of necessity as it needs to be, then it must somehow involve within itself a ceremonious generosity toward the wilderness of natural force and instinct. The farm must yield a place to the forest, not as a wood lot, or even as a necessary agricultural principle but as a sacred grove - a place where the Creation is let alone, to serve as instruction, example, refuge; a place for people to go, free of work and presumption, to let themselves alone. (pg. 125, The Body and the Earth)

  Wendell Berry

  Yield, People, Generosity

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• We need a home in the psychological sense as much as we need one in the physical: to compensate for a vulnerability. We need a refuge to shore up our states of mind, because so much of the world is opposed to our allegiances. We need our rooms to align us to desirable versions of ourselves and to keep alive the important, evanescent sides of us.

  Alain de Botton

  Home, Mind, Important

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• From my spirit's gray defeat, From my pulse's flagging beat, From my hopes that turned to sand Sifting through my close-clenched hand, From my own fault's slavery, If I can sing, I still am free. For with my singing I can make A refuge for my spirit's sake, A house of shining words, to be My fragile immortality.

  Sara Teasdale

  Hands, House, Shining

  Sara Teasdale (1917). “Love Songs”

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• Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.

  Michael Crichton

  Literature, Matter, Way

  "Consensus Science and the Peer Review" by Jorge R. Barrio, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. April 28, 2009.

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• There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.

  Norman Douglas

  Men, Doe, Nucleus

  Norman Douglas (1955). “A Selection from His Works”

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• I had great difficulty in school interacting with others, and I took refuge in the contrived setting of play acting, which is what I still do.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  School, Play, Acting

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• Your home is your refuge.

  George Carlin

  Home

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• It's amazing living alone. I'm very lucky. It's like a refuge.

  Paloma Faith

  Lucky, Living Alone

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• I wrap my arms around his neck, feel his arms hesitate before they embrace me. Not as steady as they once were, but still warm and strong. A thousand moments surge through me. All the times these arms were my only refuge from the world. Perhaps not fully appreciated then, but so sweet in my memory, and now gone for ever.

  Suzanne Collins

  Sweet, Strong, Memories

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.338, Scholastic Inc.

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• I felt the tributaries of his veins, wished to enter into his bloodstream, travel there, dissolved and bodiless, to take refuge in the thick walled chambers of his heart.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Heart, Veins, Chamber

  Diana Gabaldon (2012). “The Outlander Series 7-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone”, p.4730, Dell

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• Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.

  Tacitus

  Political, Audacity, Politics

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• I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Business, Work

  "Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde".

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• Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate, or in the wordlessness of long, grinding labor, of sound sleep, of true music, or of a human understanding rendered speechless by emotion!

  Boris Pasternak

  Sleep, Long, Understanding

  Roger Martin du Gard, Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, Gabriela Mistral (1971). “Roger Martin du Gard: Gabriela Mistral ; Boris Pasternak”

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