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• I love hiccups and I love sneezes and I love blinks and I love belches and I love gluttons. I love hair. I love bears. For me, the round. For me, the world.

  Giannina Braschi

  Life, Love Is, Hair

  "Empire of Dreams". Book by Giannina Braschi, 2012.

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• Old sundial, you stand here for Time: For Love, the vine that round your base, Its tendrils twines, and dares to climb, And lay one flower-capped spray in grace, Without the asking on your cold, Unsmiling and unfrowning face.

  Eleanor Farjeon

  Life, Flower, Grace

  "Pan-Worship: And Other Poems (Time And Love)". Book by Eleanor Farjeon, 1908.

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• Ghosts of melodious prophesyings rave
  Round every spot where trod Apollo's foot;
  Bronze clarions awake, and faintly bruit,
  Where long ago a giant battle was;
  And, from the turf, a lullaby doth pass
  In every place where infant Orpheus slept.
  Feel we these things? - that moment have we stept
  Into a sort of oneness, and our state
  Is like a floating spirit's. But there are
  Richer entanglements, enthralments far
  More self-destroying, leading, by degrees,
  To the chief intensity: the crown of these
  Is made of love and friendship, and sits high
  Upon the forehead of humanity.

  John Keats

  Life, Feet, Self

  John Keats, “Endymion: Book I”

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• Love, as is told by the seers of old,
  Comes as a butterfly tipped with gold,
  Flutters and flies in sunlit skies,
  Weaving round hearts that were one time cold.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Love, Life, Heart

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• And on her lover's arm she leant,
  And round her waist she felt it fold,
  And far across the hills they went
  In that new world which is the old.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, World, Arms

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.130, Cambridge University Press

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• Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example, a well-laid garden; and nothing seems worth doing but the laying~out of gardens.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Garden, Essentials

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1857). “Essays: First Series”, p.321

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• Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme?
  Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread,
  By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed?

  George Crabbe

  Poetry, Myrtle, Ruins

  George Crabbe, “The VILLage: Book I”

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• A poem round and perfect as a star.

  Alexander Smith

  Stars, Perfect, Poetry

  alexander smith (1853). “poems”, p.33

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• The Church says the Earth is flat. But I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the Moon. And I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Motivational, Death, Faith

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• Round numbers are always false.

  Samuel Johnson

  Science, Numbers, Statistics

  Dr. Samuel Johnson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Johnson (Illustrated)”, p.8602, Delphi Classics

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• When, however, the lay public rallies round an idea that is denounced by distinguished but elderly scientists and supports that idea with great fervor and emotion - the distinguished but elderly scientists are then, after all, probably right.

  Isaac Asimov

  Science, Ideas, Elderly

  Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, 1977.

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• Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dust-cloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences minute and irregular and seldom met with, which it always proves more easy to ignore than to attend to... Anyone will renovate his science who will steadily look after the irregular phenomena, and when science is renewed, its new formulas often have more of the voice of the exceptions in them than of what were supposed to be the rules.

  William James

  Science, Dust, Voice

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• In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we believe it to be round, not because as many as 1 percent of us could give physical reasons for so quaint a belief, but because modern science has convinced us that nothing that is obvious is true, and that everything that is magical, improbable, extraordinary, gigantic, microscopic, heartless, or outrageous is scientific.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Believe, Science, Giving

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• Not by appointment do we meet Delight And Joy; they heed not our expectancy; But round some corner in the streets of life, They, on a sudden, clasp us with a smile.

  Gerald Massey

  Smile, Joy, Delight

  "The Poetical Works of Gerald Massey".

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• Sailin' 'round the world in a dirty gondola
  Oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!

  Bob Dylan

  Travel, Dirty, Land

  Song: When I Paint My Masterpiece

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• Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.

  Thomas Paine

  Truth, Freedom, Men

  Thomas Paine, Bruce Kuklick (2000). “Paine: Political Writings”, p.162, Cambridge University Press

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• Much like the hands of a clock go nowhere fast, anxious thoughts run us round-and-round without taking us anywhere!

  Guy Finley

  Running, Sadness, Hands

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from May 07, 2014

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• Love makes the world go round? Not at all. Whiskey makes it go round twice as fast.

  Compton Mackenzie

  Anniversary, Humorous, Drinking

  Sir Compton Mackenzie (1950). “Tight Little Island”

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• There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time.

  Edith Wharton

  Happiness, Running, Mind

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.4977, Delphi Classics

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• Fight one more round. When your arms are so tired that you can hardly lift your hands to come on guard, fight one more round. When your nose is bleeding and your eyes are black and you are so tired that you wish your opponent would crack you one on the jaw and put you to sleep, fight one more round - remembering that the man who always fights one more round is never whipped.

  James J. Corbett

  Motivational, Sports, Perseverance

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• Dancing up the full moon
  Round some fair new altar
  Trample the soft blossoms of fine grass.

  Sappho

  Dance, Moon, Dancing

  Sappho “One Hundred Poems”, Lulu.com

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• O Lord God, we pray that we may be inspired to nobleness of life in the least things. May we dignify all our daily life. May we set such a sacredness upon every part of our life, that nothing shall be trivial, nothing unimportant, and nothing dull, in the daily round.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Dull, May, Praying

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “Prayers from Plymouth Pulpit”, p.101

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• When the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea? O no, no, I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty.

  William Blake

  Fire, Vision, Sun

  'A Vision of the Last Judgement' (1810) in 'MS Note-Book' p. 95

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• The more a man lives, the more a man creates, the more a man loves and loses those whom he loves, the more does he escape from death. With every new blow that we have to bear, with every new work that we round and finish, we escape from ourselves, we escape into the work we have created, the soul we have loved, the soul that has left us.

  Romain Rolland

  Lying, Men, Rome

  "John Christopher: Journey's end".

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• The dead are all holy, even they that were base and wicked while alive. Their baseness and wickedness was not they, was but the heavy and unmanageable environment that lay round them.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Evil, Wicked, Alive

  Thomas Carlyle (1881). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.45

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