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• Truffles must come to the table in their own stock and as you break open this jewel sprung from a poverty-stricken soil, imagine - if you have never visited it - the desolate kingdom where it rules.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Food, Jewels, Cooking

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• If salt ocean is the Great Mother from whom all life has sprung, fresh water is the Nurse entrusted to nourish life within her wanderings and around her wave-lapped margins.

  Henry Williamson

  Mother, Ocean, Nurse

  Henry Williamson (2011). “The Gale of the World”, p.252, Faber & Faber

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• Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present.

  Walter Benjamin

  Past, Views, Abortion

  Walter Benjamin, Michael William Jennings, Edmund Jephcott (2016). “One-Way Street”, p.60, Harvard University Press

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• Desire of power, on earth a vicious weed, Yet, sprung from high, is of celestial seed: In God 'tisglory; and when men aspire, 'Tis but a spark too much of heavenly fire.

  John Dryden

  Weed, Men, Fire

  1681 Absalom and Achitophel, pt.1, l.305-9.

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• A court of heraldry sprung up to supply the place of crusade exploits, to grant imaginary shields and trophies to families that never wore real armor, and it is but of late that it has been discovered to have no real jurisdiction.

  William Shenstone

  Real, Sprung Up, Armor

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.36

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• That which had grown from the earth, to the earth, But that which has sprung from heavenly seed, Back to the heavenly realms returns. This is either a dissolution of the mutual involution of the atoms, or a similar dispersion of the unsentient elements.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Atoms, Elements, Earth

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.78, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• Who, noteless as the race from which he sprung,
  Saved others' names, but left his own unsung.

  Walter Scott

  Race, Names, Saved

  Walter Scott, Sir Walter Scott (1841). “The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart”, p.644

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• The great Vaishnava religion of India has also sprung from a Tamil Pariah - Shathakopa - "who was a dealer in winnowing-fans but was a Yogin all the while".

  Swami Vivekananda

  India, Fans, Pariahs

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3266, Manonmani Publishers

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• When you delve deep enough, you find that practically every great fortune and great enterprise in America have sprung from the courageous enterprise of some individual. It was Commodore Vanderbilt's enterprise in switching first from running a ferryboat to running other ships, and then, when he was well along in years, his enterprise in switching into railroading, that created what was to become one of the most notable fortunes in the history of the world.

  B. C. Forbes

  Running, Business, America

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• I feel like somebody who just got out of prison after 40 years for something she didn't do, like I got pardoned by the governor. When dear friends deal with me with mixed emotions, it is a little like being told, 'Well, Jenny, we're glad you got sprung, really, but quite honestly we did kind of like you better when you were in jail.

  Jennifer Finney Boylan

  Years, Jail, Littles

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• Those who actually set out to see the fall of a city or those who choose to go to a front line, are obviously asking themselves to what extent they are cowards. But the tests they set themselves - there is a dead body, can you bear to look at it? - are nothing in comparison with the tests that are sprung on them. It is not the obvious tests that matter (do you go to pieces in a mortar attack?) but the unexpected ones (here is a man on the run, seeking your help - can you face him honestly?).

  James Fenton

  Running, War, Fall

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• It seems that, after nineteen centuries of extraordinary glorification, the small Host for which so many cathedrals have sprung up, the small Host that has rested in millions of breasts and that has found a tabernacle and worshippers even in the desert - it seems that the triumphant Host of Lourdes and the Eucharistic Congresses of Chicago and Carthage remains as unknown, as secret as when it appeared for the first time in a room in Jerusalem. Light is in the world as in the days of St. John the Baptist, and the world does not know it

  Francois Mauriac

  Light, Sprung Up, Secret

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• For I am yearning to visit the limits of the all-nurturing Earth, and Oceans, from whom the gods are sprung.

  Homer

  Ocean, Science, Earth

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• Christ hath arisen! O mountain peaks, attest-
  Witness, resounding glen and torrent wave!
  The immortal courage in the human breast
  Sprung from that victory-tell how oft the brave
  To camp midst rock and cave,
  Nerved by those words, their struggling faith have borne,
  Planting the cross on high above the clouds of morn!

  Felicia Hemans

  Easter, Struggle, Clouds

  Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans (1836). “The Poetical Works of Mrs. Felicia Hemans: Complete in One Volume”, p.361

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• Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not tell - they catalyzed a burning desire to know. Under their influence, the horizons sprung wide and fear went away and the unknown became knowable. But most important of all, the truth, that dangerous stuff, became beautiful and very precious.

  John Steinbeck

  Beautiful, Teacher, Art

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• Everyone's opinion is of equal value, which is bizarre to me. It's so hard to get anybody cast because you'll be on the phone with 15 people, and if anybody says I don't know about that guy - move on. Wait a minute, why is that person's note valid? It's such a bizarre process that's sprung up around it.

  Edward Allen Bernero

  Moving, Phones, Sprung Up

  Source: deadline.com

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• With the things that I love, I tried to put a couple seeds, a bunch of seeds in the ground and see what sprung up. Sometimes it was acting and sometimes it was music. But whatever it was I continued to plant.

  Lauryn Hill

  Couple, Sprung Up, Acting

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• Everything has sprung from immortal life and is vibrating with life, for life is immense!

  Rabindranath Tagore

  God, Immortal Life, Life Is

  Rabindranath Tagore (2006). “Sadhana”, p.28, 1st World Publishing

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• From hence, no question, has sprung an observation ... confirmed now into a settled opinion, that some long experienced souls in the world, before their dislodging, arrive to the height of prophetic spirits.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Long, Soul, World

  Desiderius Erasmus (2016). “In Praise of Folly”, p.85, Desiderius Erasmus

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• Another way of judging the value of a prophet's religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Religious, Judging, Would Be

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal (2000). “The religious thought in Islam”

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• We shall therefore take an appropriately correct view of the origin of our life, if we consider our own embryos to have sprung immediately from those embryos whence our parents were developed, and these from the embryos of their parents, and so on for ever. We should in this way look on the nature of mankind, and perhaps on that of the whole animated creation, as one Continuous System, ever pushing out new branches in all directions, that variously interlace, and that bud into separate lives at every point of interlacement.

  Francis Galton

  Views, Parent, Bud

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• In the many forms of government which have sprung up there has always been an acknowledgement of justice and proportionate equality, although mankind fail in attaining them, as indeed I have already explained. Democracy, for example, arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

  Aristotle

  Men, Sprung Up, Justice

  Aristotle, Stephen Everson (1996). “Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens”, p.120, Cambridge University Press

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• Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.

  Alexander Pope

  Ambition, Angel, Firsts

  'Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady' (1717) l. 13

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• Nothing great or enduring, especially in music, has ever sprung full-fledged and unprecedented from the brain of any master; the best he gives to the world he gathers from the hearts of the people, and runs it through the alembic of his genius.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Music, Running, Heart

  James Weldon Johnson, Sondra K. Wilson (1995). “The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays”, p.315, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• When we affect to condemn savages, we should remember that by doing so we asperse our own progenitors; for they were savages also.Who can swear that among the naked British barbarians sent to Rome to be stared at more than 1500 years ago, the ancestor of Bacon might not have been found?--Why, among the very Thugs of India, or the bloody Dyaks of Borneo, exists the germ of all that is intellectually elevated and grand. We are all of us--Anglo-Saxons, Dyaks and Indians--sprung from one head and made in one image.

  Herman Melville

  Thug, Rome, Years

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