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«Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain / Clings cruelly to us.»
«Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God»
«The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch.»
Author: Anthony Burgess
(Critic, Man of letter, Novelist)
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«Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us»
«The prisoner is not the one who has committed a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
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«The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech; he takes a low business-tone, avoids all brag, is nobody, dresses plainly, promises not at all, performs much, speaks in monosyllables, hugs his fact. He calls his employment by its lowest name, and so takes from evil tongues their sharpest weapon. His conversation clings to the weather and the news, yet he allows himself to be surprised into thought, and the unlocking of his learning and philosophy.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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«The mortal claims this body as his own. Again and again, he clings to it. He is entangled with his children, his wife and household affairs. He cannot be the slave of the Lord.»
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