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• People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

  Rogers Hornsby

  Sports, Baseball, Spring

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

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• An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Dirty, Naughty, Light

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• That silent gap between your thoughts is your window to the cosmic mind.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Mind, Gaps

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• The window is the absence of the wall, and it gives air and light because it is empty. Be empty of all mental content, of all imagination and effort, and the very absence of obstacles will cause reality to rush in.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Wall, Reality, Light

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• A house without books is like a room without windows.

  Horace Mann

  Life, Happiness, Attitude

  "The Duty of Owning Books". Book by Horace Mann, 1859.

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• To a clear eye the smallest fact is a window through which the infinite may be seen.

  Thomas Huxley

  Eye, May, Facts

  "The Study of Zoology" (1861)

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• But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Science, Light

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 1

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• Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Anniversary, Marriage

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• Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Education, Dark, Mirrors

  Sydney J. Harris (1985). “Pieces of Eight Pa”, Mariner Books

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• we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Love, Romantic, Stars

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• Poets, come out of your closets, Open your windows, open your doors, You have been holed up too long in your closed worlds... Poetry should transport the public/to higher places/than other wheels can carry it.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Doors, Long, World

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti, “Populist Manifesto No. 1”

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• A library doesn't need windows. A library is a window.

  Stewart Brand

  Library, Needs

  How Buildings Learn ch. 3 (1994)

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• One Zen master said, The whole universe is my true personality. This is a very wonderful saying... If you want to see what you truly are, open the window, and everything you see is in fact the expression of your inner reality. Can you embrace all of it?

  Adyashanti

  Reality, Expression, Personality

  Adyashanti (2011). “Falling into Grace: Insights on the End of Suffering”, p.220, Sounds True

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• All happenings, great and small, are parables whereby God speaks. The art of life is to get the message. To see all that is offered us at the windows of the soul, and to reach out and receive what is offered, this is the art of living.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Art, Grace, Soul

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• The Window is not without a certain visual spell that makes it a first-rate artistic achievement.

  Andrew Sarris

  Achievement, Firsts, Artistic

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• Those who enter through the back door can expect to be shown out through the window

  Aesop

  Doors, Back Doors

  Aesop (2014). “Aesop's Fables”, p.107, Penguin

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• Without looking out of my window I could know the ways of heaven

  George Harrison

  Heaven, Way, Knows

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• Open wide the windows of our spirits and fill us full of light; open wide the door of our hearts, that we may receive and entertain Thee with all our powers of adoration.

  Christina Rossetti

  Heart, Light, Doors

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• Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself. If you don't have friends you see much less than you otherwise might.

  Merle Shain

  Friendship, World, Might

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• Wherever you have seen God pass, mark that spot, and go and sit in that window again.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Spots, Mark

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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  One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to stop worrying & start living”, p.22, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Such a deep silence surrounds me, that I think I hear moonbeams striking on the windows.

  Lucian Blaga

  Thinking, Silence, Moonbeams

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• most people come to know only one corner of their room, one spot near the window, one narrow strip on which they keep walking back and forth.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  People, Rooms, Spots

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• Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

  Coco Chanel

  Passion, Blessing, Boredom

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• Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams

  Neil Gaiman

  Dream, Other Worlds, Mind

  Neil Gaiman (2008). “M Is for Magic”, HarperCollins

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