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Mary Douglas

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DEEPIKA PADUKONE The ordinary arts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simpli...
THOMAS MORE Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
HANNAH MORE Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trem...
HANNAH MORE The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of ...
HANNAH MORE The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than...
HANNAH MORE My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works ...
HANNAH MORE There is one single fact which we may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity, namely, that...
HANNAH MORE Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
HANNAH MORE O jealousy, Thou ugliest fiend of hell! thy deadly venom Preys on my vitals, turns the health...
HANNAH MORE Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.
HANNAH MORE Fell luxury! more perilous to youth Than storms or quicksands, poverty of chains.
HANNAH MORE No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue; Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest Save he who...
HANNAH MORE What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.
THOMAS MORE Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more cert...
HANNAH MORE How goodness heightens beauty!
HANNAH MORE Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
HANNAH MORE If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow...
HANNAH MORE Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam o...
HANNAH MORE Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.
HANNAH MORE Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.
HANNAH MORE In men this blunder still you find, All think their little set mankind.
HANNAH MORE For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infan...
THOMAS MORE One man to live in pleasure and wealth, whiles all other weap and smart for it, that is the part not...
THOMAS MORE Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else whe...
THOMAS MORE Sow an action, reap a habit.
HANNAH MORE Small habits, well pursued betimes, May reach the dignity of crimes.
HANNAH MORE I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.
THOMAS MORE Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatre...
HANNAH MORE I am the reassurance that they have not changed. In an upside down world, with all the rules being r...
KENNETH MORE And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you wi...
THOMAS MORE Whate'er in her Horizon doth appear, She is one Orb of Sense, all Eye, all aiery Ear.
HENRY MORE Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's ...
THOMAS MORE A crown! what is it? It is to bear the miseries of a people! To bear the miseries of a people...
HANNAH MORE Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam o...
HANNAH MORE It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate wh...
HANNAH MORE One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire help t...
HANNAH MORE Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
HANNAH MORE [how can anyone] be silly enough to think himself better than other people, because his clothes are ...
THOMAS MORE And, indeed, though they differ concerning other things, yet all agree in this: that they think ther...
THOMAS MORE There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every t...
THOMAS MORE One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps ...
HANNAH MORE Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are, and silently as they throw their s...
HANNAH MORE He liked those literary cooks Who skim the cream of others' books; And ruin half an author's g...
HANNAH MORE Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs; Sinc...
HANNAH MORE Then awake! the heavens look bright, my dear; / 'Tis never too late for delight, my dear;/ And the b...
THOMAS MORE If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow...
HANNAH MORE Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill tha...
THOMAS MORE On ne renonce pas à sauver le navire dans la tempête parce qu'on ne saurait empêcher le vent de s...
THOMAS MORE In an upside down world, with all the rules being rewritten as the game goes on and spectators invad...
KENNETH MORE In Pakistan, it was a stop-gap arrangement. Here we would definitely go with a specialist opener.
KIRAN MORE A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
THOMAS MORE If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
THOMAS MORE Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
THOMAS MORE He travels best that knows when to return.
THOMAS MORE First Thought is one of the gem of garland of Success... Don't lose it.... Whenever a thought strike...
RAJESH MORE The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simpli...
THOMAS MORE One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated
THOMAS MORE Ask a woman's advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you're sure to be wise
THOMAS MORE She is far from the land where her young hero sleeps, / And lovers are round her, sighing:/ But cold...
THOMAS MORE Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal
THOMAS MORE Earth hath no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.
THOMAS MORE Marriage is an Athenic weaving together of families, of two souls with their individual fates and de...
THOMAS MORE A friendship like love is warm; a love like friendship is steady.
THOMAS MORE What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine
THOMAS MORE If I speak to thee in friendship's name, thou think'st I speak too coldly, if I mention love's devot...
THOMAS MORE The way to Heaven out of all places is of like length and distance
THOMAS MORE The devil - the prowde spirit - cannot endure to be mocked
THOMAS MORE The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close
THOMAS MORE Oh! breathe not his name, let it sleep in the shade, / Where cold and unhonoured his relics are laid...
THOMAS MORE Believe me, if all those endearing young charms, / Which I gaze on so fondly to-day.
THOMAS MORE Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all d...
THOMAS MORE By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, natu...
THOMAS MORE This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason o...
THOMAS MORE . . . the state of things and the dispositions of men were then such, that a man could not well tell...
THOMAS MORE I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
THOMAS MORE Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
THOMAS MORE Our purpose is to be the sword and shield for people of faith ... to defend and protect Christians a...
THOMAS MORE An enchanted world is one that speaks to the soul, to the mysterious depths of the heart and imagina...
THOMAS MORE An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
THOMAS MORE The light, that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing
THOMAS MORE Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still
THOMAS MORE To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have b...
THOMAS MORE Friendship demands attention.
THOMAS MORE Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound
THOMAS MORE Your sheep, that were wont to be so meek and tame and so small eaters, now, as I hear say, be become...
THOMAS MORE 'Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone
THOMAS MORE Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.
HANNAH MORE The channel is known only to the natives; so that if any stranger should enter into the bay without ...
THOMAS MORE The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the ...
THOMAS MORE I never nursed a dear gazelle, / To glad me with its soft black eye, / But when it came to know me w...
THOMAS MORE Oh! blame not the bard.
THOMAS MORE Some flow'rets of Eden ye still inherit, / But the trail of the serpent is over them all!
THOMAS MORE Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power
THOMAS MORE Like Dead Sea fruits, that tempt the eye, / But turn to ashes on the lips!
THOMAS MORE Your eight is someone's infinity.
NITYA MORE A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.
THOMAS MORE The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion an...
THOMAS MORE Forgiveness is the economy of the heart.…forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatre...
HANNAH MORE No one, on his deathbed, ever regretted having been a Catholic.
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you must be able
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You do not have to walk on your knees
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(In my sleep I dreamed this poem)

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MARY OLIVER Instructions for living a life.
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.
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with your one wild and precious life?
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I hear the thrush singing
in the glowing woods
he is only passing throug...
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