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• Be aware of anxiety. Next to sin, thee is nothing that so troubles the mind, stains the heart, distresses the soul, and confuses the judgment.

  William Bernard Ullathorne

  Heart, Anxiety, Soul

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• As we're leaving the King's Arms Hotel after Sunday lunch, I watch a beautiful white dove walking down the wet road. A car approaches and the bird accidentally turns into the wheel rather than away from it. A gentle crunch. The car passes. A shape like a discarded napkin left in the road. Still perfectly white, no red stains, but bearing no relation anymore to the shape of a bird. A trail of white feathers flutter down the road after the car. The suddeness is very upsetting. That gentle crunch.

  Antony Sher

  Beautiful, Kings, Sunday

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• Democrats are not angry about 9/11. Sad, maybe - sad that it didn't happen on Clinton's watch so his legacy would be more than a semen stain. But they're not angry.

  Ann Coulter

  Legacy, Watches, Would Be

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• Purity means lack of hatred, jealousy, fear, greed and lust - the absence of anything that can stain consciousness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Buddhism, Hatred

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• Everybody in New York, including police horses, dresses fashionably, and whenever I'm there, even in my sharpest funeral-quality suit with no visible ketchup stains, I feel as though I'm wearing a Hefty trash bag. And it's last year's Hefty trash bag.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Horse, New York

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.143, Crown Archetype

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• I wear this crown of thorns
  Upon my liar's chair
  Full of broken thoughts
  I cannot repair
  Beneath the stains of time
  The feelings disappear
  You are someone else
  I am still right here
  What have I become
  My sweetest friend?

  Trent Reznor

  Liars, Sadness, Broken

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• Besides the guilt of sin and the power of sin, there is the stain of sin.

  Nathaniel Culverwell

  Guilt, Sin

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• When I am dead, no pageant train shall waste their sorrows at my bier. Nor worthless pomp of homage vain stain it with hypocritic tear.

  Edward Everett

  Mourning, Sorrow, Tears

  Edward Everett (1836). “Life and Speeches”

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• Purple as tulips in May, mauve into lush velvet, purple as the stain blackberries leave on the lips, on the hands, the purple of ripe grapes sunlit and warm as flesh.

  Marge Piercy

  Hands, Purple, Erotic

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Colors Passing Through Us”, p.132, Knopf

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• I think of religion as something that stains the person. It's a mindset you can never get free from, it's always in the back of your head.

  Angel Haze

  Thinking, Mindset, Persons

  "Rapper Angel Haze on religion, rape and survival" by Alex Macpherson, www.theguardian.com. January 31, 2013.

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• Twere sin to stain fair Venus' courts with blood

  Robert Greene

  Blood, Venus, Sin

  Robert Greene (1963). “Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay”, p.49, U of Nebraska Press

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• Sin is not a stain that I must wash out. What I need to do is ask forgiveness and reconcile myself, not go to the drycleaners. I have to go encounter Jesus who gave his life for me.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Encounters, Needs

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• I like raunchiness, not like in a biker-chick sort of a way, but like the girl can't help it. Little bruises, a few hairs out of place, a little stain here and there.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Girl, Hair, Here And There

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• How wrong to think I was anyone else, like thinking grass stains make you a beautiful view, like getting kissed makes you kissable, like feeling warm makes you coffee, like liking movies makes you a director. How utterly incorrect to think it any other way, a box of crap is treasures, a boy smiling means it, a gentle moment is a life improved.

  Daniel Handler

  Beautiful, Coffee, Mean

  Daniel Handler (2012). “Why We Broke Up”, p.196, Egmont UK

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• I adore Smashbox lip stains. I carry a natural color for daytime and a berry shade for going out at night.

  Jennifer Morrison

  Night, Color, Berries

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• By the sympathy of your human hearts for sin ye shall scent out all the places — whether in church, bedchamber, street, field, or forest — where crime has been committed, and shall exult to behold the whole earth one stain of guilt, one mighty blood spot.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Heart, Blood, Guilt

  "Young Goodman Brown" (1835)

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• If an enthusiastic, ardent, and ambitious man marry a wife on whose name there is a stain, which, though it originate in no fault of hers, may be visited by cold and sordid people upon her, and upon his children also: and, in exact proportion to his success in the world, be cast in his teeth, and made the subject of sneers against him: he may, no matter how generous and good his nature, one day repent of the connection he formed in early life; and she may have the pain and torture of knowing that he does so.

  Charles Dickens

  Children, Pain, Men

  "Oliver Twist".

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• The proprietor had hair so red that pigmentation had flowed out into every visible inch of his skin and even into the pinks of his eyes, as the colour of flowering cherry trees stains their leaves.

  Quentin Crisp

  Eye, Hair, Tree

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, Chapter 13, 1968.

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• The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise isgone! it isgone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.

  Edmund Burke

  Nurse, Evil, Grace

  'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 113

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• Suffering is essential for the elimination of the ego, just as it was necessary for you to scrub and scrub in order to wash the stain from my coat.

  Meher Baba

  Order, Ego, Suffering

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• Whenever I see people with their collars up, I'm tempted to point it out to them like you would for someone who has a food stain on their shirt or food in their teeth, as if to say, 'Your fashion sense is so offensive I'm assuming it's some sort of accident you'll want to fix.

  Stephan Pastis

  Fashion, People, Want

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• My table is now brightly, now dimly lighted. Its temperature varies. It may receive an ink stain. One of its legs may be broken. It may be repaired, polished, and replaced part by part. But, for me, it remains the table at which I daily write.

  Ernst Mach

  Writing, Broken, Ink

  Ernst Mach (1959). “The Analysis of Sensations: And the Relation of the Physical to the Psychical”

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• If we wish to express what we want the men of future generations to be, we must say: Let them be like Che! If we wish to say how we want our children to be educated, we must say without hesitation: We want them to be educated in Che’s spirit! If we want the model of a man, who does not belong to our times but to the future, I say from the depths of my heart that such a model, without a single stain on his conduct, without a single stain on his action, is Che!

  Fidel Castro

  Children, Heart, Men

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• My nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of gunpowder and blood… Crazy with fury I will stain my rifle red while slaughtering any surrendered enemy that falls in my hands! With the deaths of my enemies I prepare my being for the sacred fight and join the triumphant proletariat with a bestial howl!

  Che Guevara

  Crazy, Fall, Fighting

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• Be happy, be happy; you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with my own heart's-blood. All that I ask of you in return is that you will be a true lover, for Love is wiser than Philosophy, though she is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Wise, Philosophy

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.296, GENERAL PRESS

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