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• I love the night. I love to feel the tide of darkness rising, slowly and slowly washing, turning over and over, lifting, floating, all that lies strewn upon the dark beach, all that lies hid in rocky hollows.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Beach, Lying, Dark

  Katherine Mansfield (2006). “The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield”, p.362, Wordsworth Editions

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• The gravest events dawn with no more noise than the morning star makes in rising. All great developments complete themselves in the world and modestly wait in silence, praising themselves never, and announcing themselves not at all. We must be sensitive, and sensible, if we would see the beginnings and endings of great things. That is our part.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Morning, Stars, Silence

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.5

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• There are but two ways of rising in the world: either by one's own industry or profiting by the foolishness of others.
  [Fr., Il n'y a au monde que deux manieres de s'elever, ou par sa propre industrie, ou par l'imbecilite des autres.]

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Success, Two, Way

  "Les Caractères", XII, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 97-106,

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• We better know there is a fire whence we see much smoke rising than we could know it by one or two witnesses swearing to it. The witnesses may commit perjury, but the smoke cannot.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Two, Fire, May

  Abraham Lincoln (1894). “Abraham Lincoln: Complete Works, Comprising His Speeches, Letters, State Papers, and Miscellaneous Writings”

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• The talkers are rising above the thinkers.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Talking, Rise Above, Thinker

  "The Lacuna". Book by Barbara Kingsolver, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2009.

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• Revolution always unfolds inside an atmosphere of rising expectations.

  June Jordan

  Expectations, Atmosphere, Revolution

  June Jordan (1992). “Technical Difficulties: African-American Notes on the State of the Union”, Pantheon

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• Fading, with the Night, the memory of a dead love, and the withered leaves of a blighted hope, and the sickly repinings and moody regrets that numb the best energies of the soul: and rising, broadening, rolling upward like a living flood, the manly resolve, and the dauntless will, and the heavenward gaze of faith-the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen!

  Lewis Carroll

  Memories, Regret, Night

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales”, p.367, Race Point Pub

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• Rising glory occasions the greatest envy, as kindling fire the greatest smoke.

  Edmund Spenser

  Fire, Envy, Glory

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• Nothing can be more touching than to behold a soft and tender female, who had been all weakness and dependence, and alive to every trivial roughness while treading the prosperous paths of life, suddenly rising in mental force to be the comforter and supporter of her husband under misfortune, and abiding with unshrinking firmness the bitterest blast of adversity.

  Washington Irving

  Husband, Adversity, Wife

  Washington Irving (1834). “The Complete Works: With a Memoir of the Author”, p.231

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• The golden line is drawn between winter and summer. Behind all is blackness and darkness and dissolution. Before is hope, and soft airs, and the flowers, and the sweet season of hay; and people will cross the fields, reading or walking with one another; and instead of the rain that soaks death into the heart of green things, will be the rain which they drink with delight; and there will be sleep on the grass at midday, and early rising in the morning, and long moonlight evenings.

  Leigh Hunt

  Summer, Sweet, Morning

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• A house is never perfectly furnished for enjoyment unless there is a child in it rising three years old, and a kitten rising three weeks.

  Robert Southey

  Children, Years, House

  Robert Southey (1865). “The Doctor, Etc”, p.330

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• I learned what education really is: the penetrating deeper and rising higher into life, as well as making continually wider explorations; the rounding of the whole human being out of its nebulous elements into form, as planets and suns are rounded, until they give out safe and steady light. This makes the process a infinite one, not possible to be completed at any school.

  Lucy Larcom

  Education, School, Light

  Lucy Larcom (1889). “A New England Girlhood, Outlined from Memory”

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• For man is a plant, not fixed in the earth, nor immovable, but heavenly, whose head, rising as it were from a root upwards, is turned towards heaven.

  Plutarch

  Men, Roots, Heaven

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• Our large trading cities bear to me very nearly the aspect of monastic establishments in which the roar of the mill-wheel and the crane takes the place of other devotional music, and in which the worship of Mammon and Moloch is conducted with a tender reverence and an exact propriety; the merchant rising to his Mammon matins, with the self-denial of an anchorite, and expiating the frivolities into which he maybe beguiled in the course of the day by late attendance at Mammon vespers.

  John Ruskin

  Self, Cities, Attendance

  John Ruskin (1872). “The Political Economy of Art: Being the Substance (with Additions) of Two Lectures Delivered at Manchester, July 10th and 13th, 1857”, p.124

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• You're like a cake when you're young. You can't rush it or it will fall, or just turn out wrong. Rising takes patience, and heat.

  Anna Quindlen

  Fall, Cake, Youth

  Anna Quindlen (2012). “Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake: A Memoir of a Woman's Life”, p.3, Random House

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• The passions are the gales of life; and it is religion only that can prevent them from rising into a tempest.

  Isaac Watts

  Passion, Gale, Tempest

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• In women's destiny everything goes downhill except for thought, whose immortal nature it is to keep constantly rising.

  Madame de Stael

  Destiny, Immortal

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• In a process that had begun in the 1980s and suddenly accelerated in the early 2000s ... [t]he peaks of great wealth grew higher, rising up beyond the clouds, while the valleys of poverty sank lower into perpetual shadow. The once broad plateau of the middle class eroded away into a narrow ledge, with the white-knuckled occupants holding on for dear life.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Clouds, Class, White

  Barbara Ehrenreich (2008). “Going to Extremes: Notes from a Divided Nation”, Granta Books (UK)

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• Huge lemons, cut in slices, would sink like setting suns into the dusky sea, softly illuminating it with their radiating membranes, and its clear, smooth surface aquiver from the rising bitter essence.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Food, Cutting, Sea

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• You get a series of super-typhoons into Shanghai and millions of people die. Does the population there lose faith in Chinese government? Does China start to fissure? I'd prefer to deal with a rising, dominant China any day.

  David Titley

  Government, People, Chinese

  "'Climate Change War' Is Not a Metaphor". Interview with Eric Holthaus, www.slate.com. April 18, 2014.

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• Happiness is a social creature. If you try to pursue it in a vacuum, it's very difficult to sustain it. But as soon as you get people focused on creating meaningful connections in the midst of their work, or increasing the meaning and depth of their relationships outside of work, we find happiness rising in step with that social connection.

  Shawn Achor

  Meaningful, Creating, People

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• What in the rising man was industry and economy, becomes in the rich man parsimony and avarice.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Men, Greed, Rich

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1832). “Ladies' Magazine and Literary Gazette”, p.156

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• Yet never sleep the sun up. Prayer shou'd
  Dawn with the day. There are set, awful hours
  'Twixt heaven and us. The manna was not good
  After sun-rising; far day sullies flowres.
  Rise to prevent the sun; sleep doth sin glut,
  And heaven's gate opens when the world's is shut.

  Henry Vaughan

  Prayer, Sleep, Heaven

  Henry Vaughan, Henry Francis Lyte (1847). “Silex scintillans. Sacred poems and private ejaculations (with a mem. by H.F. Lyte).”, p.56

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• The resurrection morning is a true sun-rising, the inbursting of a cloudless sky on all the righteous dead. They wake transfigured, at their Maker's call, with the fashion of their countenance altered and shining like His own.

  Horace Bushnell

  Fashion, Morning, Sky

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 519, 1895.

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• The things of the world are ever rising and falling, and in perpetual change; and this change must be according to the will of God, as He has bestowed upon man neither the wisdom nor the power to enable him to check it. The great lesson in these things is, that man must strengthen himself doubly at such times to fulfill his duty and to do what is right, and must seek his happiness and inward peace from objects which cannot be taken away from him.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Fall, Taken, Men

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