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• Throughout the whole vegetable, sensible, and rational world, whatever makes progress towards maturity, as soon as it has passed that point, begins to verge towards decay.

  Robert Blair

  Maturity, Vegetables, Progress

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• The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven.

  Edward Young

  Life, Fate, Men

  Edward Young, John Mitford (1852). “The poetical works of Edward Young”, p.34

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• But labor of the hands, even when pursued to the verge of drudgery, is perhaps never the worst form of idleness. It has a constantand imperishable moral, and to the scholar it yields a classic result.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Yield, Hands, Moral

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden: 150th Anniversary Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.153, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We must die alone. To the very verge of the stream our friends may accompany us; they may bend over us, they may cling to us there; but that one long wave from the sea of eternity washes up to the lips, sweeps us from the shore, and we go forth alone! In that untried and utter solitude, then, what can there be for us but the pulsation of that assurance, "I am not alone, because the Father is with me!

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Death, Father, Sea

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• The only wrong thing, perhaps, is permanently hesitating on the verge of courage.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Wrong Things

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• You blame me for weeping, but how can I help it when you will not weep for yourselves, though your immortal souls are on the verge of destruction.

  George Whitefield

  Soul, Helping, Blame

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• I believe we have made a decision now that will permit us to create an economic order in the world that will promote more growth, more equality, better preservation of the environment, and a greater possibility of world peace, we are on the verge of a global economic expansion that is sparked by the fact that the United States at this critical moment decided that we would compete, not retreat.

  William J. Clinton

  Peace, Believe, Order

  William J. Clinton “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton, 1993, Bk. 2, August 1 to December 31, 1993”, Government Printing Office

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• Over the last years we've seen the consequences of the Obama-Clinton foreign policy. Leading from behind is a disaster. We have abandoned and alienated our friends and allies, and our enemies are stronger. Radical Islam is on the rise, Iran's on the verge of acquiring a nuclear weapon, China is waging cyber warfare against America.

  Ted Cruz

  America, Iran, Years

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I believe we're at the verge of the greatest time to be alive in this world. But Washington is holding us back. How we tax, how we regulate. We're not embracing the energy revolution in our midst, a broken immigration system that has been politicized rather than turning it into an economic driver. We're not protecting and preserving our entitlement system or reforming for the next generation. All these things languish while we have politicians in Washington using these as wedge issues.

  Jeb Bush

  Believe, Issues, Broken

  "Transcript of the 2015 GOP debate (9 pm)". www.cbsnews.com. August 6, 2015.

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• A major change is afoot as we combine both WPZ and Access into the large scale natural gas infrastructure MLP. And the team here at WPZ is very energized right now as we're on the verge of a major $1 billion boost in our annual cash flows that we expect to come from three major projects Geismar, Gulfstar and the Keathley Canyon Connector all of which have reached the commissioning stage here in the fourth quarter.

  Alan Armstrong

  Team, Cash Flow, Three

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• A real litmus test for me is how people treat someone who is waiting on them. That's a dealbreaker for me.If I were on the verge of getting into a serious relationship and I saw that person be mean to a waiter... I'm out.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Real, Mean, People

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• After a short period spent in Brussels as a guest of a neurological institute, I returned to Turin on the verge of the invasion of Belgium by the German army, Spring 1940, to join my family. The two alternatives left then to us were either to emigrate to the United States, or to pursue some activity that needed neither support nor connection with the outside Aryan world where we lived. My family chose this second alternative. I then decided to build a small research unit at home and installed it in my bedroom.

  Rita Levi-Montalcini

  Spring, Home, Army

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• I utterly reject the view that the Third World is doomed to poverty and starvation. Not only is this wrong, I think this attitude verges on the immoral, like thinking that slavery is an unalterable facet of the human condition so why bother doing anything about it?

  Alex Tabarrok

  Attitude, Thinking, Views

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• Everyone is on the verge of insanity ... insanity meaning on the verge of the unknown.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Insanity

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• Eternity! How know we but we stand
  On the precipitous and crumbling verge
  Of Time e'en now, Eternity below?

  Abraham Coles

  Crumbling, Eternity, Knows

  Abraham Coles (1880). “The microcosm, and other poems”

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• Our wishes never seem so little desirable as when on the verge of accomplishment; we draw back instinctively, they look so different from what we expected.

  Geraldine Jewsbury

  Accomplishment, Expectations, Wish

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• I have always had the urge to open forbidden doors: with a curiosity and an obstinacy that verge on masochism.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Doors, Curiosity, Obstinacy

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• An enlightened mind is not hoodwinked; it is not shut up in a gloomy prison till it thinks the walls of its dungeon the limits of the universe, and the reach of its own chain the outer verge of intelligence.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Wall, Thinking, Mind

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.2238, Delphi Classics

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• Studs Lonigan, on the verge of fifteen, and wearing his first suit of long trousers, stood in the bathroom with a Sweet Caporal pasted on his mug.

  James T. Farrell

  Sweet, Book, Long

  James T. Farrell (2001). “Studs Lonigan”, p.22, Penguin

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• The truth, it seems, is not just what you find when you open a door: it is itself a door, which the poet is always on the verge of going through.

  Margaret Atwood

  Truth, Doors, Poetry

  Margaret Atwood (1984). “Second words: selected critical prose”, Beacon Press, 1984

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• While nothing is certain, I firmly believe our nation is on the verge of a nuclear energy renaissance.

  Michael K. Simpson

  Believe, Energy, Nuclear

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• I love heights. I love speed. Im on the verge of being a pyromaniac. Maybe my phobia is boredom.

  Erin Wasson

  Boredom, Height, Speed

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• I was on the verge of jumping into one of those holes in life out of which we emerge a bit tattered and bloody, though we remain sure nonetheless that we had to make the jump.

  Jim Harrison

  Jumping, Holes, Bloody

  Jim Harrison (2013). “Dalva”, p.43, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• It's not that I don't appreciate my life sober, but it's like there are two different people battling inside of me. I want to be good, do good, be a worker among workers, a friend among friends. But there's also this part of me that is so dissatisfied with everything, If I'm not living on the verge of death, I feel like I'm not really living.

  Nic Sheff

  Two, Appreciate, People

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• What is commonly honored with the name of Friendship is no very profound or powerful instinct. Men do not, after all, love their Friends greatly. I do not often see the farmers made seers and wise to the verge of insanity by their Friendship for one another. They are not often transfigured and translated by love in each other's presence. I do not observe them purified, refined, and elevated by the love of a man.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Wise, Wisdom

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.110, Penguin

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