#depths

Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown. ↗

— Matthew Henry

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It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean. ↗

— John Locke

#depths #fathom #great #his #know

I play music, I paint - these things come from your depths. ↗

— John Lurie

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I am my heart's undertaker. Daily I go and retrieve its tattered remains, place them delicately into its little coffin, and bury it in the depths of my memory, only to have to do it all again tomorrow. ↗

— Emilie Autumn

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I critique market-based medicine not because I haven't seen its heights but because I've seen its depths. ↗

— Paul Farmer

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Out of the depths, O Lord, out of the depths,' begins the most beautiful of the services of our church, and it is out of the depths of my life that I must bring the incidents of this story. ↗

— Hall Caine

#begins #bring #church #depths #i

Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair. ↗

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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There are many secrets in us, in the depths of our souls, that we don't want anyone to know about. ↗

— Charles Durning

#anyone #depths #know #many #our

Time in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood all created things and drowns them in the depths of obscurity. ↗

— Anna Comnena

#carries #ceaseless #created #depths #drowns