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• A tale begun in other days, When summer suns were glowing - A simple chime, that served to time The rhythm of your rowing - Whose echoes live in memory yet, Though envious years would say 'forget.

  Lewis Carroll

  Summer, Memories, Simple

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• I realized that searching for a mentor has become the professional equivalent of waiting for Prince Charming. We all grew up on the fairy tale "Seeping Beauty," which instructs young women that if they just wait for their prince to arrive, they will be kissed and whisked away on a white horse to live happily ever after. Now young women are told that if they can just find the right mentor, they will be pushed up the ladder and whisked away to the corner office to live happily ever after. Once again, we are teaching women to be too dependent on others.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Horse, Teaching, White

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• I will write in words of fire. I will write them on your skin. I will write about desire. Write beginnings, write of sin. You’re the book I love the best, your skin only holds my truth, you will be a palimpsest lines of age rewriting youth. You will not burn upon the pyre. Or be buried on the shelf. You’re my letter to desire: And you’ll never read yourself. I will trace each word and comma As the final dusk descends, You’re my tale of dreams and drama, Let us find out how it ends.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dream, Drama, Book

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• The Princess Bride S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure You had to admire a guy who called his own new book a classic before it was published and anyone had a chance to read it.

  William Goldman

  Book, Princess, Adventure

  William Goldman (2007). “The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure”, p.29, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The wise old fairy tales never were so silly as to say that the prince and the princess lived peacefully ever afterwards. The fairy tales said that the prince and princess lived happily ever afterwards; and so they did. They lived happily, although it is very likely that from time to time they threw the furniture at each other.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Wise, Silly, Princess

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• She tastes like nectar and salt. Nectar and salt and apples. Pollen and stars and hinges. She tastes like fairy tales. Swan maiden at midnight. Cream on the tip of a fox’s tongue. She tastes like hope.

  Laini Taylor

  Stars, Apples, Swans

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.79, Hachette UK

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• You could string a hundred endless days together, My soul would find no comfort from this pain. You laugh at my tale? You may be educated But you haven’t learned to love till you’re insane

  Rumi

  Pain, Laughing, Soul

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• I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale. We should not allow it to be believed that all scientific progress can be reduced to mechanisms, machines, gearings, even though such machinery has its own beauty.

  Marie Curie

  Children, Science, Thinking

  "Madame Curie: A Biography". Book by Eve Curie Labouisse translated by Vincent Sheean, 1937.

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• Time in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood all created things and drowns them in the depths of obscurity. . . . But the tale of history forms a very strong bulwark against the stream of time, and checks in some measure its irresistible flow, so that, of all things done in it, as many as history has taken over it secures and binds together, and does not allow them to slip away into the abyss of oblivion.

  Anna Komnene

  Strong, Taken, History

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• History is a tragegy, not a morality tale.

  Christopher Hitchens

  History, Morality

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• Therefore, teaching, talk and tale, however lucid or fascinating, effect nothing until self-activity be set up; that is, self-education is the only possible education; the rest is mere veneer laid on the surface of a child's nature.

  Charlotte Mason

  Children, Teaching, Learning

  Charlotte Mason (2013). “Towards a Psychology of Education”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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• And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe.
  And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot;
  And thereby hangs a tale.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, You Like It, Hours

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 26

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• To know, to esteem, to love,-and then to part,
  Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Life, Heart, Feelings

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Illustrated)”, p.965, Delphi Classics

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• No love-story has ever been told twice. I never heard any tale of lovers that did not seem to me as new as the world on its first morning.

  Eleanor Farjeon

  Life, Morning, World

  Eleanor Farjeon (1922). “Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard”

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• A tale without love is like beef without mustard: insipid.

  Anatole France

  Life, Love Is, Beef

  Anatole France (2015). “The Revolt of the Angels: Works by France”, p.28, 谷月社

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• Heart of my heart, we are one with the wind,
  One with the clouds that are whirled o'er the lea,
  One in many, O broken and blind,
  One as the waves are at one with the sea!
  Ay! when life seems scattered apart,
  Darkens, ends as a tale that is told,
  One, we are one, O heart of my heart,
  One, still one, while the world grows old.

  Alfred Noyes

  Life, Heart, Clouds

  Alfred Noyes (2008). “The Golden Hynde”, p.144, Wildside Press LLC

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• Love's arms were wreathed about the neck of Hope,
  And Hope kiss'd Love, and Love drew in her breath
  In that close kiss and drank her whisper'd tales.
  They said that Love would die when Hope was gone.
  And Love mourn'd long, and sorrow'd after Hope;
  At last she sought out Memory, and they trod
  The same old paths where Love had walked with Hope,
  And Memory fed the soul of Love with tears.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Memories, Kissing

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.373, Delphi Classics

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• A politician's record is like a tin kettle to a dog's tale - it's a noisy appendage, wich makes the dog conspicuous and invites everybody to shy a brick at him.

  David Ross Locke

  Dog, Politics, Bricks

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• Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.

  George Santayana

  Religion, Fairy Tale, Conscience

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.8, Indiana University Press

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• No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Believe, Successful

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• An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.

  William Shakespeare

  Honesty, Honest, Speed

  'Richard III' (1591) act 4, sc. 4, l. 359

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• Your clothes smell heavily of clothing. Your den is filled with low-hanging palls of fresh air. The only rattle in your car is the sound of toll change in the ashtray. The absence of telltale tobacco stains on your shirt collar tells the tale - you've licked the smoking habit.

  Robert Breault

  Air, Smell, Clothes

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• I am all the time talking about you, and bragging, to one person or another. I am like the Ancient Mariner, who had a tale in his heart he must unfold to all. I am always buttonholing somebody and saying, "Someday you must meet my mother."

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Daughter, Mother, Heart

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1952). “Letters”

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• A drink is shorter than a tale

  Omar Khayyam

  Drinking, Drink

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• It needs great art, learning to play with one's own life, to play on one's own life. Meditation is the art to create music from your heart. Meditation is simply the method to transform noise into harmony, the method to shift your consciousness from the head to the heart. The head is noisy, it is all noise - a tale told by an idiot, full of fury and noise, signifying nothing.

  Rajneesh

  Art, Creativity, Play

  Bhagwan S. Rajneesh, Osho, Krishna Prem (Swami.), Krishna Prabhu (Swami.) (1984). “Just Around the Corner: Initiation Talks Between Master and Disciple”, Osho International Foundation

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