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• It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it to be devoured by worms.

  Christiaan Barnard

  Heart, Heart Transplant, Transplants

  "Heart transplant pioneer dies". www.cnn.com. September 2, 2001.

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• And now let us consider and marvel that ever this great and blessed God should be so much concerned, as you have heard He is in all His providences, about such vile, despicable worms as we are! He does not need us, but is perfectly blessed and happy in Himself without us. We can add nothing to Him.

  John Flavel

  Christian, Blessed, Doe

  "The Mystery of Providence".

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• Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright, But looked to near, have neither heat nor light.

  John Webster

  Shine Bright, Light, Shining

  'The Duchess of Malfi' (1623) act 4, sc. 2, l. 148

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• we know our end
  A packet of worm-seed, a garden of spent tissues.

  Allen Tate

  Garden, Tissues, Ends

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.13, Macmillan

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• I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Hook, Juicy, Middle

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• Out- out are the lights- out all! And, over each quivering form, The curtain, a funeral pall, Comes down with the rush of a storm, While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, "Man," And its hero the Conqueror Worm.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Hero, Angel, Men

  Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Ollive Mabbott (1969). “Complete Poems”, p.326, University of Illinois Press

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• The early bird might catch the worm, but I bet it also needs a ton of under eye concealer

  Nicole Richie

  Eye, Bird, Needs

  Twitter post from Jul 08, 2011

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• Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Grateful, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.127, Penguin

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• People are worms, and even the God who created them is immensely bored with their antics.

  Ama Ata Aidoo

  People, Bored, Antics

  Ama Ata Aidoo (2015). “No Sweetness Here and Other Stories”, p.96, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.

  Kate Seredy

  Crush, Moving, Heart

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• The young May moon is beaming, love.
  The glow-worm's lamp is gleaming, love.
  How sweet to rove,
  Through Morna's grove,
  When the drowsy world is dreaming, love!
  Then awake! - the heavens look bright, my dear,
  'Tis never too late for delight, my dear,
  And the best of all ways
  To lengthen our days
  Is to steal a few hours from the night, my dear!

  Thomas Moore

  Dream, Sweet, Spring

  'Irish Melodies' (1807) 'The young May moon'

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• Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield;
  Learn from the beasts the physic of the field;
  The arts of building from the bee receive;
  Learn of the mole to plow, the worm to weave.

  Alexander Pope

  Inspirational, Art, Yield

  Alexander Pope (1763). “An essay on man: By Alexander Pope, Esq. Enlarged and improved by the author. Together with his MS. additions and variations as in the last edition of his works. With the notes of William, Lord Bishop of Gloucester”, p.70

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• Who hail thee, Man! the pilgrim of the day, spouse of the worm, and brother of the clay.

  Thomas Campbell

  Brother, Men, Clay

  Thomas Campbell, Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Gray (1872). “The Poetical Works of Campbell, Goldsmith and Gray: With Memoirs of the Authors”, p.80

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• O to be a dragon, a symbol of the power of Heaven-of silk-worm size or immense; at times invisible. Felicitous phenomenon!

  Marianne Moore

  Power, Dragons, Heaven

  'O To Be a Dragon' (1959)

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• Who are the farmer's servants? ... Geology and Chemistry, the quarry of the air, the water of the brook, the lightning of the cloud, the castings of the worm, the plough of the frost.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Clouds, Air

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.675, Modern Library

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• I hear, Western people say, "The world was created for us." If tigers could write books, they would say, man was created for them and that man is a most sinful animal, because he does not allow him (the tiger) to catch him easily. The worm that crawls under your feet today is a God to be.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Book, Writing, Animal

  Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

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• The way that worms and viruses spread on the Internet is not that different from the way they spread in the real world, and the way you quarantine them is not that different, either.

  David Ulevitch

  Real, World, Quarantine

  "Meet David Ulevitch, CEO of OpenDNS" by Suzanne Herel, www.sfgate.com. September 26, 2010.

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• I try and eat really healthy when I'm home, but I certainly don't eat worms and snakes.

  Bear Grylls

  Home, Snakes, Healthy

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• Speakers' nerves affect them in various ways. Some tremble, some become frenzied. I lose all confidence, and suffer from a leaden oppression that makes me wonder why I ever agreed to speak at all; the Tomb and the Conqueror Worm seem preferable to delivering the stupid and piffling speech I have so carefully prepared.

  Robertson Davies

  Stupid, Suffering, Speech

  Robertson Davies (2008). “Selected works on the art of writing”, Penguin Group Canada

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• In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.

  Bill Vaughan

  Bird, Next, Firsts

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• Vile worm, thou wast o'erlook'd even in thy birth.

  William Shakespeare

  Sassy, Birth

  William Shakespeare (1826). “The plays of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text by G. Steevens and E. Malone, with a selection of notes, by A. Chalmers”, p.279

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• My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker, and the grief, Are mine alone!

  Lord Byron

  Sad, Grief, Flower

  'On This Day I Complete my Thirty-Sixth Year' (1824).

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• Here's what happens when you die--you sit in a box and get eaten by worms. I guarantee you that when you die, nothing cool happens.

  Howard Stern

  Guarantees, Boxes, Happens

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• Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Powerful, Halloween

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 1, l. 14

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• Let me be dressed as I will, yet flies worms and flowers exceed me still.

  Oscar Wilde

  Fashion, Flower, Clothes

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