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• The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness.

  John Keats

  Life, Ambition, Character

  'Endymion' (1818) preface

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• The whole fauna of human fantasies, their marine vegetation, drifts and luxuriates in the dimly lit zones of human activity, as though plaiting thick tresses of darkness. Here, too, appear the lighthouses of the mind, with their outward resemblance to less pure symbols. The gateway to mystery swings open at the touch of human weakness and we have entered the realms of darkness. One false step, one slurred syllable together reveal a man's thoughts.

  Louis Aragon

  Marine, Men, Swings

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• It must not be thought that it is ever possible to reach the interior earth by any perseverance in mining: both because the exterior earth is too thick, in comparison with human strength; and especially because of the intermediate waters, which would gush forth with greater impetus, the deeper the place in which their veins were first opened; and which would drown all miners.

  Rene Descartes

  Perseverance, Science, Water

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• Good strong thick stupefying incense-smoke!

  Robert Browning

  Strong, Incense, Catholicism

  'The Bishop Orders his Tomb' (1845) l. 80

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• I love paper. A nice thick pile of it and a pencil, and I'm content.

  Cecil Balmond

  Nice, Paper, Architect

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• The tackles are coming in thick and thin now.

  Alan Brazil

  Football, Thick And Thin

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• Father eternal, ruler of creation, Spirit of life, which moved ere form was made Through the thick darkness covering every nation Light to man's blindness, O be Thou our aid.

  Laurence Housman

  Life, Father, Men

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• Starting a business isn't for everyone, and it's not what you should do if you aren't sure what else to do. It requires thick skin and the willingness to carry a great deal of stress, sometimes alone. It's more often a life of failure than a life of success, and the majority of successes came after a long road of disappointment, and often shame.

  Kathryn Minshew

  Disappointment, Stress, Long

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• By bells and many other similar techniques they (schools) teach that
  nothing is worth finishing. The gross error of this is progressive: if
  nothing is worth finishing then by extension nothing is worth starting
  either. Few children are so thick-skulled they miss the point.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Children, School, Errors

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• You'd think family would be the one sure thing in life, the gimme? Points you got just for being born? So much thick, meaty stuff bound you to these people, so many interlocking spirals of history, genetics, common cause, and struggle that it should be the most basic of all drives, that you would strive to protect and love one another, yet this bond that should be the big no-brainer was in fact the hardest thing.

  Ben Fountain

  Struggle, Thinking, Things In Life

  Ben Fountain (2012). “Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk”, p.77, Canongate Books

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• People tend to consider beig vulnerable a bad thing. It's not. Vulnerability reminds us that we're human. It keeps us open to giving and receiving love. Without at least a little, we can become someone living n a prison of our own making, where the walls are so thick that no one can get in or out.

  Jodee Blanco

  Wall, Receiving Love, People

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• Bakery air is that steaming hot front of thick, buttery fumes waiting for you just inside the door of a bakery. And I am just going to tell you straight up: That is some fine air!

  Neil Pasricha

  Air, Doors, Waiting

  Neil Pasricha (2010). “The Book of Awesome”, p.43, Penguin

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• You experience that you are cut off by being in your mind, and there is a quality that is starving in an individual that is locked in their mind. So when you move to another plane of consciousness which is no longer controlled by your intellect, which is really the sub-system and you move into the meta-system, what you feel at that moment is... you are the universe, you feel merged with it, you feel thick with the moment, and that richness is so fulfilling.

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  Ram Dass

  Moving, Cutting, Mind

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• And although I see few results, future missionaries will see conversions following every sermon. May they not forget the pioneers who worked in the thick gloom with few rays to cheer, except such as flow from faith in the precious promises of God's Word.

  David Livingstone

  Cheer, Promise, Rays

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• Jesus Christ reveals, not an embarrassed God, not a confused God, not a God who stands apart from the problems, but One who stands in the thick of the whole thing with man.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Confused, Men

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.48, Discovery House

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• I don't know (and I guess I never will while I'm alive) just how thick my old skull is, but I do know that it is pretty thick, or it would have been cracked many years ago, for I have been struck some terrible blows on my head with iron dray-pins, pokers, clubs, stone-coal, and bowlders, which would have split any man's skull wide open unless it was pretty thick. Doctors have often told me that my skull was nearly an inch in thickness over my forehead.

  George Devol

  Men, Blow, Iron

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• There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick.

  Alastair Campbell

  Royal, Reason, Decline

  "The royals are so thick" by Alastair Campbell, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2001.

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• Sit, then, as if you were a mountain, with all the unshakeable, steadfast majesty of a mountain. A mountain is completely natural and at ease with itself, however strong the winds that try to bother it, however thick the dark clouds that swirl around its peak. Sitting like a mountain, let your mind rise and fly and soar

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Strong, Dark, Clouds

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• Right down there in the thick of things, we discover the love that will not die.

  Pema Chodron

  Dies

  Pema Chodron (2008). “The Pocket Pema Chodron”, p.87, Shambhala Publications

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• I'd say, don't listen to what anyone says: you're good. Go put your anorak on. Get your thick bottle-top specs. Draw your little cartoons and your comics and keep writing to the BBC.

  Peter Capaldi

  Writing, Cartoon, Bottles

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• Hope has a thick skin and will endure many a blow; it will put on patience as a vestment and will endure all things (if they be of the right kind) for the joy that is set before it. Hence patience is called patience of hope,' because it is hope that makes the soul exercise long-suffering under the cross until the time comes to enjoy the crown!

  John Bunyan

  Exercise, Blow, Long

  John Bunyan (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of John Bunyan (Illustrated)”, p.1756, Delphi Classics

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• Many demons are in woods, in waters, in wildernesses, and in dark poolly places ready to hurt and prejudice people; some are also in the thick black clouds, which cause hail, lightning and thunder, and poison the air, the pastures and grounds.

  Martin Luther

  Hurt, Dark, Past

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• Hello?” I peered into the shadows. Two green circles flashed in the dark. I yelped, jumping backward and pressing myself against the wall. “And may I wish a very good morning to you, too, October.” The voice was amused, underscored by a chuckle like thick cream. “What happened? Did the prettiest little princess miss her carriage home?

  Mira Grant

  Morning, Wall, Princess

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• Silently, I lifted my doggy bowl off the floor. Then, with a quick, powerful flip of my wrist, I threw it into the back of Blondie’s head so hard that – with an earsplitting bang – it smashed flat before it ricocheted across the room and snapped the round top piece off the thick newel post at the foot of the stairs.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Powerful, Feet, Bangs

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Breaking Dawn: Twilight”, p.181, Hachette UK

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• It does seem to me, that herein we see the rare virtue of a strong individual vitality, and the rare virtue of thick walls, and the rare virtue of interior spaciousness. Oh, man! admire and model thyself after the whale! Do thou, too, remain warm among ice. Do thou, too, live in this world without being of it. Be cool at the equator; keep thy blood fluid at the Pole. Like the great dome of St. Peter's, and like the great whale, retain, O man! in all seasons a temperature of thine own.

  Herman Melville

  Strong, Wall, Men

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.292

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