#clings

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over. ↗

— Henry Miller

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Conservatism clings to what has been established, fearing that, once we begin to question the beliefs that we have inherited, all the values of life will be destroyed. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

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Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God. ↗

— Martin Luther

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Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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Some people ask me whether I'm a 'mama's girl' or a 'papa's girl.' I'm nobody's girl. My brother clings to our parents; I'm the one shoving them out the door. ↗

— Hayden Panettiere

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Love is the essence of life; love touches all of our work. Love never leaves us. It clings to us, and we cling to it. ↗

— Emmanuelle Riva

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An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

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