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• One must have a mind of winter to regard the frost and the boughs of the pine trees, crusted with snow, And have been cold a long time, to behold the junipers, shagged with ice, the spruces, rough in the distant glitter of the January sun, and not to think of any misery in the sound of the wind, in the sound of a few leaves, which is the sound of the land, full of the same wind, blowing in the same bare place for the listener, who listens in the snow, and, nothing herself, beholds nothing that is not there, and the nothing that is.

  Wallace Stevens

  Time, Winter, Thinking

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.89, Vintage

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• If anyone has it rough at Guantanamo, it is the guards. They are constantly harassed and threatened by some of these terrorists. Prisoners tell guards, we know where your families are. We know where your wife is, your children, and we are going to kill them.

  Robin Hayes

  Children, Wife, Terrorist

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• The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• To risk reputation and affection for the truth's sake is so demanding that to do it constantly you will need a degree of moral principle that only the Spirit of God can work in you. Do not turn your back like a coward, but play the man. Follow boldly in your Master's steps, for He has made this rough journey before you. Better a brief warfare and eternal rest than false peace and everlasting torment.

  Alistair Begg

  Journey, Men, Play

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• The truth is that things matter. They have to, they are what we live with and touch each and every day. They represent what we've seen, who we've loved and where we hope to go next. They remind us of the good times and the rough patches and everything in between that's made us who we are.

  Nate Berkus

  Love, Life, Meaningful

  Nate Berkus (2012). “The Things That Matter”, p.10, Spiegel & Grau

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• Love was like the waves in the sea, gentle and good sometimes, rough and terrible at others, but that it was endless and stronger than the sky and earth and everything in between.

  Veronica Rossi

  Sea, Sky, Stronger

  "Through The Ever Night". Book by Veronica Rossi, 2013.

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• Yes, aging can be tough and rough... But it is possible to approach the ultimate without staggering and even with a kind of glow, like a radiant sunset.

  Norman Corwin

  Sunset, Age, Tough

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• If your social consciousness seems stuck in 1975, 2014 is gonna be a rough ride.

  John Scalzi

  Consciousness, Social, Stuck

  Twitter post from Feb 10, 2014

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• Let's not be too rough on our own ignorance, it's what makes America great.

  Frank Zappa

  Ignorance, America

  The Tonight Show, June 29, 1988.

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• Politics cannot stop to study psychology Its methods are rough; its judgments rougher still.

  Henry Adams

  Psychology, Study, Judgment

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.163, Booklassic

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• We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Wisdom, Courage, Work

  Theodore Roosevelt (1901). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt: The strenuous life”

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• Our path is sometimes rough and sometimes smooth; nonetheless, life is a constant journey... whatever we do is regarded as our journey, our path. That path consists of opening oneself to the road, opening oneself to the steps we are about to take.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Journey, Path, Steps

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Two: The Path Is the Goal; Training the Mind; Glimpses of Abhidharma; Glimpses of Shu nyata; Glimpses of Mahayana; Selected Writings”, p.454, Shambhala Publications

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• A humorist tells himself every morning, "I hope it's going to be a rough day." When things are going well, it's much harder to make the right jokes.

  Alan Coren

  Morning, Rough Day, Harder

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• The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover, Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank, Conceives by idleness, and nothing teems But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burrs, Losing both beauty and utility.

  William Shakespeare

  Weed, Green, Docks

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

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• Country music turns the stuff we say every day into a soundtrack...taking an ordinary working man like me into that rough, happy country of longnecks and short tales.

  Jay Heinrichs

  Country, Writing, Men

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• Rough Johnson, the great moralist.

  Lord Byron

  Morality, Johnson, Moralist

  Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.279, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• When you work for the thing you believe in You're rich though the whole way is rough- But work that is simply for money Will never quite pay you enough.

  Rebecca McCann

  Work, Believe, Pay

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• When things could've gone really bad, rugby caught my interest and I really stuck with it. The sport brought me, maybe off the streets where we'd be fighting, into putting in a good effort in the rugby field where you're kind of rewarded for that rough behaviour instead of in trouble with the law.

  Daniel Cudmore

  Sports, Fighting, Law

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• When the road looks rough ahead, remember the 'Man upstairs'
  and the word HOPE.
  Hang onto both and 'tough it out'.

  John Wayne

  Men, Looks, Tough

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• God is with you, and He'll help you make spiritual progress-strengthening and encouraging you to keep on keeping on during rough times. It's easy to quit, but it takes faith to press on to victory.

  Joyce Meyer

  Motivational, Spiritual, Victory

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• Although I may not be a lioness, I am a lion's cub, and inherit many of his qualities; and as long as the King of France treats me gently he will find me as gentle and tractable as he can desire; but if he be rough, I shall take the trouble to be just as troublesome and offensive to him as I can.

  Elizabeth I

  Kings, Kindness, Long

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• When I saw Jimi Hendrix I knew immediately that this guy was the real thing ... and when he played it was like a rough sketch of what he was going to become ... this guy was our generation, and he wasn't in a suit .. he played a Howlin' Wolf song 'Killing Floor', and then we (The Cream) had to carry on the set. It was pretty hard to follow.

  Eric Clapton

  Music, Song, Real

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• Sure God created man before woman, but then again you always make a rough draft before creating the final masterpiece.

  Robert Bloch

  Women, Creating, Finals

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• ... to die on a kitchen floor at 7 o'clock in the morning while other people are frying eggs is not so rough unless it happens to you.

  Charles Bukowski

  Death, Morning, Eggs

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• Men should have rough hands and be strong.

  Scott Caan

  Strong, Men, Hands

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