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• Every brave man is a man of his word; to such base vices he cannot stoop, and shuns more than death the shame of lying.

  Pierre Corneille

  Lying, Men, Brave

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• Time stoops to no man's lure.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Men, Lure

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (1866). “Laus Veneris, and other poems and ballads. [Orig. publ. as Poems and ballads]. Author's ed”, p.192

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• I'm from a singing family, but they're not professional singers, only gospel - my grandfather was a minister. I started to sing the music that was out then because my mother used to play it all the time. It was the end of the '50s, the beginning of the '60s. There was Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers, Etta James... We used to sit outside on the stoop and sing. We even used to put our radios and record players outside.

  Diana Ross

  Mother, Teenager, Player

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Love, Art, Betrayal

  The Vicar of Wakefield ch. 29 (1766)

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• That porch is a happy-looking place, and my father - burdened, stoop-shouldered, cadaverously thin - doesn't seem to belong on it.

  Margaret Haddix

  Father, Porch, Seems

  Margaret Peterson Haddix (2008). “Double Identity”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• Oh, the stoop of the Redeemer's amazing love! Let us, henceforth, contend how low we can go side by side with Him, but remember when we have gone to the lowest He descends lower still, so that we can truly feel that the very lowest place is too high for us, because He has gone lower still.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Amazing Love, Gone, Sides

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• But let me see thee stoop from heaven on wings That fill the sky with silver glitterings!

  John Keats

  Sky, Wings, Heaven

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley (1829). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats. Complete in One Volume”

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• There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Positive, Ambition, Political

  Henry Van Dyke (2007). “Counsels by the Way”, p.129, Wildside Press LLC

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• Guilleaume left La Praline with a small bag of florentines in his pocket; before he had turned the corner of avenue des Francs Bourgeois I saw him stoop to offer one to the dog. A pat, a bark, a wagging of the short stubby tail. As I said, some people never have to think about giving.

  Joanne Harris

  Dog, Thinking, People

  Joanne Harris (2000). “Chocolat”, p.30, Penguin

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• I dislike boats," Ragnor observed, looking around. "I get vilely seasick." The turning green joke was too easy. Magnus was not going to stoop to make it.

  Cassandra Clare

  Green, Boat, Easy

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson (2015). “The Bane Chronicles”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• I am too busy with my cause to hate too absorbed in something bigger than myself. I have no time to quarrel, no time for regrets and no man can force me to stoop low enough to hate him.

  Lawrence James

  Regret, Hate, Anger

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• In time the savage bull sustains the yoke; In time all haggard hawks will stoop to lure; In time small wedges cleave the hardest oak, In time the flint is pierced with softest shower, And she in time will fall from her disdain, And rue the sufferance of your friendly pain.

  Thomas Kyd

  Time, Pain, Fall

  c.1589 The Spanish Tragedy, act 2, sc.1.

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• Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. For jealous people, like dope-fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only disgust and loathing.

  Emma Goldman

  Love, Jealousy, Dope

  Emma Goldman (1998). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”

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• Great little One! whose all-embracing birth
  Lifts Earth to Heaven, stoops Heaven to Earth.

  Richard Crashaw

  Funny, Christmas, Heaven

  Richard Crashaw (1858). “Complete works”, p.40

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• The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Marriage, Acceptance

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• The wind sounds like a silver wire, And from beyond the noon a fire Is pour'd upon the hills, and nigher The skies stoop down in their desire; And, isled in sudden seas of light, My heart, pierced thro' with fierce delight, Bursts into blossom in his sight.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Heart, Fire, Light

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.295, Delphi Classics

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• Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Punishment, Given, Dare

  1866 Crime and Punishment, pt.5, ch.4 (translated by David Magarshak).

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• The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.

  Phillips Brooks

  Real, Humility, Humble

  Phillips Brooks (2007). “The Purpose and Use of Comfort”, p.340, Cosimo, Inc.

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• To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Inspirational, Time, Character

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• When I was a kid I'd practise Chopin on piano - and I love Chopin! He's my dawg! Then I'd go out on the stoop and blast the radio. I'm from New York, the concrete jungle. Hip-hop influenced me from day one.

  Alicia Keys

  New York, Kids, Piano

  "I love Chopin. He's my dawg". Interview with Ian Gittins, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2001.

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• He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter.

  Jose Marti

  Torches, Pairs, Could Have Been

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• When I was a kid, Halloween was strictly a starchy-vegetable-only holiday, with pumpkins and Indian corn on the front stoop; there was nothing electric, nothing inflatable, nothing with latex membranes or strobes.

  Susan Orlean

  Halloween, Holiday, Kids

  "Haunted" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. October 27, 2010.

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• When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.

  Barbra Streisand

  Girl, Father, Kids

  "The Piers Morgan Tonight Show", transcripts.cnn.com. December 23, 2012.

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• Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

  William Wordsworth

  Positive, Weed, Wisdom

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• No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.

  James Dobson

  Children, Men, Helping

  James C. Dobson (2003). “The Wonderful World of Boys”, Tyndale House Pub

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