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• Let us roll all our strength, and all Our sweetness, up into one ball: And tear our pleasures with rough strife, Through the iron gates of life. Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run.

  Andrew Marvell

  Running, Iron, Tears

  "To His Coy Mistress" l. 41 (1681)

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• The ability to talk well is to a man what cutting and polishing are to the rough diamond. The grinding does not add anything to the diamond. It merely reveals its wealth.

  Orison S. Marden

  Cutting, Men, Doe

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• But as Shakespeare’s Richard II boasts, ‘Not all the water in the rough rude sea/Can wash the balm off from an anointed king.

  Leanda de Lisle

  Kings, Sea, Water

  Leanda de Lisle, Leanda Lisle (2013). “Tudor: Passion. Manipulation. Murder. The Story of England's Most Notorious Royal Family”, p.27, PublicAffairs

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• I'm so sad that I'm old enough to play, and I'm so grateful that I am. All that clichéd things, you really do learn something if you get the luck of being able to hang around. Even if it's a rough ride, you learn.

  Mandy Patinkin

  Grateful, Play, Luck

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• It's been rough for me trying to find my position in the struggle and where my voice is needed and helpful. You know, I grew up in Philadelphia, and Philadelphia has a really rough police-brutality history. I grew up in a neighborhood where it was very clear that the police were "them" and we were "us".

  Will Smith

  Struggle, Voice, Philadelphia

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• For a century, the Arabs tribes gave Islam the first of these victories. Then the rough mountain peoples of North Africa, the Berbers, helped it to conquer Spain and organize Fatimid Egypt.

  Fernand Braudel

  Egypt, Victory, Islam

  Fernand Braudel (1995). “A History of Civilizations”, Penguin Group USA

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• There is much to be said for post-menopausal celibacy. Sex is rough on loners because you have to have somebody else around, but now I don't. No more diets to stay slim and desirable: I've had sex and I've had food, and I'd rather eat.

  Florence King

  Sex, Loner, Slim

  Florence King (1991). “Lump It Or Leave It”, p.10, Macmillan

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• My soul, the seas are rough, and thou a stranger In these false coasts; O keep aloof; there's danger; Cast forth thy plummet; see, a rock appears; Thy ships want sea-room; make it with thy tears.

  Francis Quarles

  Rocks, Sea, Soul

  Richard Crashaw, Francis Quarles, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of Richard Crashaw and Quarles' Emblems”, p.291

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• On quantum theory I use up more brain grease (rough translation of German idiom) than on relativity.

  Albert Einstein

  Grease, Brain, Use

  Quoted by Otto Stern in an interview with Thomas S. Kuhn, 1962.

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• I hold with the old-fashioned criticism that Browning is not really a poet, that he has all the gifts but the one needful and the pearls without the string; rather one should say raw nuggets and rough diamonds.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Criticism, Nuggets, Pearls

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (1991). “Selected Letters”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• This book's title, Rough Beauty , conveys Anderson's conviction that the hard scrabble lives of most of the residents of Vidor, Texas, are worthy of our attention, but it also conveys that he does not seek to beautify their lives by removing the crude edges.

  Anne Wilkes Tucker

  Book, Texas, Titles

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• If I may throw out a word of counsel to beginners, it is: Treasure your exceptions! When there are none, the work gets so dull that no one cares to carry it further. Keep them always uncovered and in sight. Exceptions are like the rough brickwork of a growing building which tells that there is more to come and shows where the next construction is to be.

  William Bateson

  Sight, Beginners, Growing

  William Bateson, Beatrice Durham Bateson (1928). “William Bateson, F. R. S., Naturalist: His Essays & Addresses, Together with a Short Account of His Life”, p.324, CUP Archive

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• It's rough to feel creatively satisfied, as an actor, for the most part, because you don't initiate your own work.

  Daryl Hannah

  Actors, Satisfied, Feels

  "SENSE8: Daryl Hannah Reflects on Performing in the Wachowskis’ Latest Project". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 10, 2015.

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• Rough wind, the moanest loud Grief too sad for song; Wild wind, when sullen cloud Knells all the night long; Sad storm, whose tears are vain, Bare woods, whose branches strain, Deep caves and dreary main, Wail, for the world's wrong!

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Song, Grief, Night

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1832). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley and Keats: Complete in One Volume”, p.481

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• Snooki is a bestselling author? Huh? What? I don't know if I should dumb down my book, shoot myself or find a publisher who'll settle for a rough draft written on a Pop-Tart and a coconut lotion handie.

  Geoffrey Hill

  Book, Dumb, Rough Drafts

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• Truth is a rough, honest, helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.

  Ouida

  Drawing, Rooms, Honest

  Ouida (1875). “Chandos: A Novel”, p.106

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• Sporting culture is needed where marks are given to students for sports in schools, jobs are assured for sportsperson, and sponsors are willing to support them through rough times.

  Gagan Narang

  Sports, Jobs, School

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• Behold great Whitman, whose licentious line Delights the rake, and warms the souls of swine; Whose fever'd fancy shuns the measur'd pace, And copies Ovid's filth without his grace. In his rough brain a genius might have grown, Had he not sought to play the brute alone; But void of shame, he let his wit run wild, And liv'd and wrote as Adam's bestial child.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Running, Children, Play

  H. P. Lovecraft (2013). “The Conservative”, p.44, Arktos

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• The future of Japan's economic growth depends on us having the willpower and the courage to sail without hesitation onto the rough seas of global competition.

  Shinzo Abe

  Japan, Sea, Competition

  "Japan’s New Leader Takes On Old Order to Jolt Economy" by Martin Fackler, www.nytimes.com. March 6, 2013.

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• Nothing teems But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burs, Losing both beauty and utility.

  William Shakespeare

  Docks, Losing, Hateful

  'Henry V' (1599) act 5, sc. 2, l. 44

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• The writer's way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats?

  Dorothy Parker

  Lonely, Way, Vacancy

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• Sweet is the rose, but grows upon a brere;
  Sweet is the juniper, but sharp his bough;
  Sweet is the eglantine, but stiketh nere;
  Sweet is the firbloome, but its braunches rough;
  Sweet is the cypress, but its rynd is tough;
  Sweet is the nut, but bitter is his pill;
  Sweet is the broome-flowre, but yet sowre enough;
  And sweet is moly, but his root is ill.

  Edmund Spenser

  Sweet, Growing Up, Nuts

  Edmund Spenser, “Sonnet XXVI”

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• It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough.

  James Russell Lowell

  Broken, Purpose, Vain

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.1503, Delphi Classics

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• In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the other eyes as mine see it.

  Michelangelo

  Art, Attitude, Wall

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• When I saw the rough cuts of ‘The Village of Peace,’ I was immediately intrigued and wanted to share this story on the global stage.

  Amar'e Stoudemire

  Cutting, Stories, Village

  "NBA Player Amar’e Stoudemire Joins ‘Village of Peace’ Docu as Exec Producer" by Andrea Seikaly, variety.com. January 30, 2014.

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