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My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety.


Elizabeth Garrett Anderson


#anxious #being #come #death #duty

An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.


William Hazlitt


#honest #honest man #man #may #offence

My point is there's a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It's a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally.


Seamus Heaney


#factor #generally #hidden #ireland #just

A signal is comprehended if it serves to make us notice the object or situation it bespeaks. A symbol is understood when we conceive the idea it presents.


Susanne Langer


#comprehended #conceive #idea #make #notice

He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.


Johann Kaspar Lavater


#dumb #genius #hero #seldom #speaks

It's a dead give away of an inexperienced writer if every character speaks with the same voice.


Colleen McCullough


#character #dead #every #give #inexperienced

A child speaks more sense than an adult half of the time.


Zoe Saldana


#child #half #more #sense #speaks

If the picture speaks to me, if it tells me something about myself, then I want it. Then I have to have it.


Norton Simon


#i #me #myself #picture #something

Nevertheless there are certain peaks, canons, and clear meadow spaces which are above all compassing of words, and have a certain fame as of the nobly great to whom we give no familiar names.


Mary Austin


#canons #certain #clear #fame #familiar

God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.


Alfred Adler


#complete #cosmos #directs #elevates #eternally






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