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• At a certain season of our life we are accustomed to consider every spot as the possible site of a house.

  Henry David Thoreau

  House, Site, Certain

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.128

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• ...Lovers are Like walking ghosts, they always haunt the spot Of their misdeeds.

  George Henry Boker

  Lovers, Ghost, Walking

  George Henry Boker (1857). “Plays and poems”, p.462

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• Take the very hardest thing in your life - the place of difficulty, outward or inward, and expect God to triumph gloriously in that very spot. Just there He can bring your soul into blossom.

  Lilias Trotter

  Life, God, Christian

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• If the government can set aside some spot for a elk to be a elk without being bothered, or a buffalo to be a buffalo without being shot down, there ought to be some place where a Negro can be a Negro without being Jim Crowed.

  Langston Hughes

  Rights, Government, Buffalo

  Langston Hughes (2015). “The Best of Simple”, p.63, Hill and Wang

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• I'm learning to use others' weaknesses. I don't hammer a man's soft spot constantly, because he may strengthen it. I just save it as a trump up my sleeve for moments when I really need a point.

  Arthur Ashe

  Men, Weakness, Needs

  Arthur Ashe, Clifford George Gewecke (1967). “Advantage Ashe”

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• We should, I believe, beware of the pitfalls described by Taine: 'Imagine a man who sets out on a voyage equipped with a pair of spectacles that magnify things to an extraordinary degree. A hair on his hand, a spot on the tablecloth, the shifting fold of a coat, all will attract his attention; at this rate, he will not go far, he will spend his day taking six steps and will never get out of his room.' We have to get out of this room.

  Robert Kennedy

  Believe, Ambition, Men

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• The spot of ground on which a man has stood is forever interesting to him.

  Alexander Smith

  Men, Interesting, Forever

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.121

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• The best aphorisms are.... portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling. They furnish the largest amount of intellectual stimulus and nutriment in the smallest compass. About every weak point in human nature, or vicious spot in human life, there is deposited a crystallization of warning and protective proverbs.

  William Rounseville Alger

  Feelings, Intellectual, Weak Points

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• Forgive me if, in friendship’s way, I offer thee a wreath of May.... [N]ourished by the dews of heaven.... So I have Ivy placed between, To prove that worth is ever green. The little blue Forget-me-not... Spring’s messenger in every spot, Smiling on all—"Remember me!

  John Clare

  Spring, Blue, Ivy

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• Is there ever any particular spot where one can put one's finger and say, "It all began that day, at such a time and such a place, with such an incident?

  Agatha Christie

  Incidents, Fingers, Particular

  Agatha Christie (2010). “Endless Night”, p.9, HarperCollins UK

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• From every spot on earth we are equally near heaven and the infinite.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Heaven, Earth, Infinite

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• Nobody dast blame this man. For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to the life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you the law or give you medicine. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back -- that's an earthquake. And then you get yourself a couple of spots on your hat, and you're finished. Nobody dast blame this man. A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory.

  Arthur Miller

  Dream, Couple, Men

  Death of a Salesman "Requiem" (1949)

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• Knowledge is little; to know the right context is much; to know the right spot is everything.

  Hugo von Hofmannsthal

  Littles, Knows

  Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1952). “Selected prose”

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• There is an art in taking the whiplash of suffering full in the face, an art you must learn. Let each single attack exhaust itself; pain always makes single attacks, so that its bite may be more intense, more concentrated. And you, while its fangs are implanted and injecting their venom at one spot, do not forget to offer it another place where it can bite you, and so relieve the pain of the first.

  Cesare Pavese

  Art, Pain, Suffering

  Cesare Pavese (2017). “This Business of Living: Diaries 1935-1950”, p.207, Routledge

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• England occupies a warm spot in my affections. It was the scene of my greatest performance. I was born there.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Humorous, England

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• There are many ways to seek wisdom. There is travel, there are masters, there is service. There is staring into the eyes of children and elders and lovers and strangers. There is sitting silently in one spot and there is being swept along in life's turbulent current. Life itself will grant you wisdom in ways you may neither understand nor choose. It is up to you to be open to all these sources of wisdom and to embrace them with your whole heart.

  Kent Nerburn

  Wisdom, Children, Eye

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• I can remember the very spot in the road, whilst in my carriage, when to my joy the solution occurred to me.

  Charles Darwin

  Joy, Remember, Carriages

  Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin (1958). “Autobiography and Selected Letters”, p.43, Courier Corporation

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• We should forgive and forget the faults of others. Anger is the enemy of every spiritual aspirant. Anger causes loss of power through every pore of our body. In circumstances when the mind is tempted to get angry, we should control ourselves and resolve firmly, 'No.' We can go to a secluded spot and chant our mantra. The mind will become quiet by itself.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Loss, Forgive And Forget

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• At the end of the archana, prostrate, then get up and, remaining on the same spot, turn around clockwise 3 times just as if circling a temple, then bow to the Lord.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Meditation, Bows, Temples

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• If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, If we must die, O let us nobly die.

  Claude McKay

  Dignity, Hog, Hunted

  Claude McKay (2012). “Selected Poems”, p.60, Courier Corporation

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• Would it be possible to stand still on one spot more majestically -- while simulating a triumphant march forward -- than it is done by the two English Houses of Parliament?

  Alexander Herzen

  Two, House, Done

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• Most students of literature can pick apart a metaphor or spot an ethnic stereotype, but not many of them can say things like: 'The poem's sardonic tone is curiously at odds with its plodding syntax.

  Terry Eagleton

  Odds, Syntax, Literature

  "A puritan at play" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2008.

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• I spot detail quickly.

  Millard Drexler

  Details

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• Prostration is our natural position. A worm-like movement from a spot of sunlight to a spot of shade, and back, is the type of movement that is natural to men.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Men, Relaxation, Laziness

  Wyndham Lewis (1989). “The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work”, Andre Deutsch Limited

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• You cannot underestimate people's ability to spot a soulless, bureaucratic tactic a million miles away. It's a big reason why so many companies that have dipped a toe in social media waters have failed miserably.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Media, Water, People

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