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• The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster.

  Rachel Carson

  Lying, Long, Progress

  "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson, (p. 277), 1962.

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• Troubles are usually the brooms and shovels that smooth the road to a good man's fortune.

  Saint Basil

  Men, Challenges, Good Man

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• O Blackbird! sing me something well: While all the neighbors shoot thee round, I keep smooth plats of fruitful ground, Where thou may'st warble, eat and dwell.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  May, Neighbor, Thee

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.91, Cambridge University Press

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• Habits are like the wrinkles on a man's brow; if you will smooth out the one, I will smooth out the other.

  Josh Billings

  Men, Wrinkles, Habit

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• Culture which smooth the whole world licks, Also unto the devil sticks.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Devil, Culture, World

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1875). “Faust: A Tragedy”, p.258

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• Every era has a currency that buys souls. In some the currency is pride, in others it is hope, in still others it is a holy cause. There are of course times when hard cash will buy souls, and the remarkable thing is that such times are marked by civility, tolerance, and the smooth working of everyday life.

  Eric Hoffer

  Wise, Wisdom, Pride

  Eric Hoffer (1979). “Before the Sabbath”, Harpercollins

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• And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.

  Alexander Pope

  Play, Water, Sound

  Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles, William Warburton, Joseph Warton (1806). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Memoirs of the life and writings of Pope. Recommendatory poems. A discourse on pastoral poetry. Pastorals. Messiah. Windsor forest. Odes. Two chorus's to the tragedy of Brutus. The dying Christian to his soul. An essay on criticism. The rape of the lock. Elegy to the memory of an unfortunate lady. Prologue to Mr. Addison's tragedy of Cato. Epilogue to Mr. Rowe's Jane Shore”, p.316

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• Why does pouring Oil on the Sea make it Clear and Calm? Is it that the winds, slipping the smooth oil, have no force, nor cause any waves?

  Plutarch

  Wind, Sea, Oil

  Plutarch (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)”, p.3441, Delphi Classics

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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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• It is hard to look back and talk about a set of disjointed experiences as though they were part of one smooth progression.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Looks, Progression, Hard

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• I really can't deny it, I am who I am. I'm pretty normal. I'm not that smooth type of girl. I run into things, I trip, I spill food. I say stupid things... I really don't have it all together.

  Katie Holmes

  Girl, Running, Stupid

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• People are always defining and re-defining music. My style of playing has been characterized as smooth jazz and acid jazz. I listen as I play; I'm not caught up in defining the type of music I play.

  Roy Ayers

  Play, Smooth Jazz, People

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• We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road - the one less traveled by - offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.

  Rachel Carson

  Nature, Women, Lying

  "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson, (p. 277), 1962.

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• Blessed are the happiness-makers! Blessed are they that take away attritions, that remove friction, that make the courses of life smooth, and the intercourse of men gentle!

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Happiness, Blessed, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1871). “The original Plymouth pulpit”, p.313

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• There is no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Obstacles, Rounds

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.2461, Book House

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• I will tell you what this people need, with regard to preaching; you need, figuratively, to have it rain pitchforks, tines downwards, from this pulpit, Sunday after Sunday. Instead of the smooth, beautiful, sweet, still, silk-velvet-lipped preaching, you should have sermons like peals of thunder, and perhaps we then can get the scales from our eyes.

  Brigham Young

  Beautiful, Sweet, Rain

  Brigham Young (1856). “Journal of Discourses”, p.222

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• If wealth come, beware of him, the smooth, false friend! There is treachery in his proffered hand; his tongue is eloquent to tempt; lust of many harms is lurking in his eye; he hath a hollow heart; use him cautiously.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Eye, Heart, Hands

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1857). “The Crock of Gold, and Other Tales”, p.106

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• The literary gift is a very dangerous gift to possess if you are not telling the truth, and I would a great deal rather, for my part, have a man stumble in his speech than to feel he was so exceedingly smooth that he had better be watched both day and night.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Night, Men, Speech

  Woodrow Wilson (1916). “Wit and Wisdom of Woodrow Wilson: Extracts from the Public Speeches of the Leader and Interpreter of American Democracy, with Masterpieces of Eloquence”, Best Books

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• Avoid the politic, the factious fool,
  The busy, buzzing, talking harden'd knave;
  The quaint smooth rogue that sins against his reason,
  Calls saucy loud sedition public zeal,
  And mutiny the dictates of his spirit.

  Thomas Otway

  Talking, Mutiny, Knaves

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• A rugged stone growes smooth from hand to hand.

  George Herbert

  Hands, Stones, Rugged

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.330

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• Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze;
  But if the pilot slumber at the helm,
  The very wind that wafts us tow'rds the port
  May dash us on the shoals. The steersman's part
  Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.

  Ben Jonson

  Blow, Wind, Slumber

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• it is only on posters and in advertisement pages that Americans have those chubby cheeks, expanding smiles, smooth looks, and faces flushed with well-being. In fact, almost all are at odds with themselves; drink offers a remedy for this inner malady of which boredom is the most usual sign: as drinking is accepted by society, it does not appear as a sign of their [Americans'] inability to adapt themselves; it is rather the adapted form of inadaptability.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Drinking, Odds, Boredom

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• I thought I had reached a point in life where everything would be smooth. But it is not. It just gets more jagged and pitted and filled with turns that take you into the dark recesses of your mind. It never seems to get easy.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Dark, Mind, Would Be

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• Now from the smooth deep ocean-stream the sun
  Began to climb the heavens, and with new rays
  Smote the surrounding fields.

  Homer

  Morning, Ocean, Heaven

  Homer (1871). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.193

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• [On Jane Austen:] To believe her limited in range because she was harmonious in method is as sensible as to imagine that when the Atlantic Ocean is as smooth as a mill-pond it shrinks to the size of a mill-pond.

  Rebecca West

  Believe, Ocean, Ponds

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews”, p.165, Open Road Media

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