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Trust is like a vase.. once it's broken, though you can fix it the vase will never be same again.


George MacDonald

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CHRISTINE MCVIE Even artificial flowers have a vase. Life is Beautiful. (Même les fleurs artificielles - Ont un vas...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE It was intended to be a vase, it has turned out a pot.
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TASHA ALEXANDER Like freshly cut roses,
I place life in a vase...
of love.
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KATHLEEN BROWN Trust is like a block of ice, once it melts into the ground, you can never get it back.
CAPTAIN CHIEF Wake up with feeling like empty vase & strive to fill it today with untiring effort to your endeavou...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.
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JOHN SHANAGHER Trust can never be earned, but can only be given. But once you have it, you can damn sure lose it.
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ADRIENNE MAYOR Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but i...
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WALTER SCOTT Credit is like a looking - glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clean again; but...
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BILL AUSTIN I have a vase with the first scoop of dirt under my desk. This is a dream come true for me and I kno...
DR. CUBIE WARD Building a trust to a friend or to anyone else is like sewing a an elegant gown, once betrayed the s...
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CHLOE THURLOW I think acting is about forgetting yourself in order to give the best of yourself. It's passing ...
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OLASOT Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.
SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.
ST. FRANCIS DE SALES You know, a heart can be broken, but it keeps on beating, just the same.
FANNIE FLAGG Don't trust the person who has broken faith once.
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JESSIE BAYLIN You know, a heart can be broken, but it still keeps a-beating just the same.
FANNIE FLAGG I feel that the same people will be driving for us once again.
BARBARA HARTFORD When a tree is polled, it will sprout new shoots nearer its roots. A soul that is ruined in the bud ...
HERMANN HESSE Trust not him that has once broken faith.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Trust not him that hath once broken faith.
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DOUGLAS ADAMS We'll never be the same again. But the school will move forward. It is a watershed Thursday but I do...
RON TAYLOR The world is broken he said, how will you fix it?

I don't think anyone can fix it but we...
NIKKI ROWE The thing about love is most only find their way into our hearts, but every now and again one will f...
LAUREN VALENCIA The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one; yo...
ELISABETH KüBLER-ROSS For trust not him that hath once broken faith
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BUZZ ALDRIN I never once got to the point where I said it's time to move on and go somewhere else and thought it...
KORDELL STEWART Trust is like paper. Once it's crumpled, it can't be perfect
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GEORGE MACDONALD My prayers, my God, flow from what I am not;
I think thy answers make me what I am.
GEORGE MACDONALD We are and remain such creeping Christians, because we look at ourselves and not at Christ; because ...
GEORGE MACDONALD It may be an infinitely less evil to murder a man than to refuse to forgive him. The former may be t...
GEORGE MACDONALD And her life will perhaps be the richer, for holding now within it the memory of what came, but coul...
GEORGE MACDONALD Only he knew that to be left alone is not always to be forsaken.
GEORGE MACDONALD Love me, beloved; Hades and Death
Shall vanish away like a frosty breath;
These hands, tha...
GEORGE MACDONALD I write, not for children,but for the child-like, whether they be of five, or fifty, or seventy-five...
GEORGE MACDONALD Her heart - like every heart, if only its fallen sides were cleared away - was an inexhaustible foun...
GEORGE MACDONALD To try to be brave is to be brave.
GEORGE MACDONALD It is by loving, and not by being loved, that one can come nearest the soul of another; yea, that, w...
GEORGE MACDONALD The nearer persons come to each other, the greater is the room and the more are the occasions for co...
GEORGE MACDONALD In moments of doubt I cry, ‘Could God Himself create such lovely things as I dreamed?’
GEORGE MACDONALD It was foolish indeed - thus to run farther and farther from all who could help her, as if she had b...
GEORGE MACDONALD ...it is so silly of people to fancy that old age means crookedness and witheredness and feebleness ...
GEORGE MACDONALD It is when people do wrong things wilfully that they are the more likely to do them again.
GEORGE MACDONALD Seeing is not believing - it is only seeing.
GEORGE MACDONALD You had better not open that door.
GEORGE MACDONALD Godfrey and Hesper made a glorious pair to look at--but would theirs be a happy union?--Happy, I dar...
GEORGE MACDONALD Doubts are the messengers of the Living One to the honest. They are the first knock at our door of t...
GEORGE MACDONALD We're looking into conserving landfill space. We're looking to generate energy without relying on fo...
GEORGE MACDONALD Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness - the cul...
GEORGE MACDONALD Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty
GEORGE MACDONALD God’s finger can touch nothing but to mold it into loveliness.
GEORGE MACDONALD The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission
GEORGE MACDONALD It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing
GEORGE MACDONALD Where did you get your eyes so blue? / Out of the sky as I came through.
GEORGE MACDONALD The two pillars of political correctness is willful ignorance and the steadfast refusal to face the ...
GEORGE MACDONALD It has been well said that no man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when to-morrow’s bu...
GEORGE MACDONALD We've done a better job at getting more complete representation.
GEORGE MACDONALD Where did you come from, baby dear? / Out of the everywhere into here.
GEORGE MACDONALD The Root of All Rebellion: It is because we are not near enough to Thee to partake of thy liberty th...
GEORGE MACDONALD To be trusted is a greater complement than to be loved
GEORGE MACDONALD Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by th...
GEORGE MACDONALD Seeing is not believing, it is only seeing,”
George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin
GEORGE MACDONALD The only way to come to know where you are is to begin to make yourself at home.
GEORGE MACDONALD Love and marriage are of the Father's most powerful means for the making of his foolish little ones ...
GEORGE MACDONALD It is not at all a fit place for you," said Clementina.

"Gently, my lady. It is a ...
GEORGE MACDONALD Mary was one who possessed power over her own spirit--rare gift, given to none but those who do some...
GEORGE MACDONALD Love is the opener as well as closer of eyes
GEORGE MACDONALD Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth Upon the earth wit...
GEORGE MACDONALD