Quotes with away

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  • John Donne As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Jean Paul As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Audre Lorde Attend me, hold me in your muscular flowering arms, protect me from throwing any part of myself away.
    A Burst of Light: and Other Essays (2017) 108
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Frank Moore Colby Averageness is a quality we must put up with. Men march toward civilization in column formation, and by the time the van has learned to admire the masters the rear is drawing reluctantly away from the totem pole.
    Frank Moore Colby
    American Editor, Essayist (1865 - 1925)
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  • George Canning Away with the cant of ''Measures, not men!'' - the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.
    George Canning
    British statesman (1770 - 1827)
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  • Victor Hugo Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Francis Bacon Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Eugène Ionesco Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.
    Eugène Ionesco
    Romanian - French writer (1909 - 1994)
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  • Louis de Bernieres Beauty is precious, you see, and the more beautiful something is, the more precious it is; and the more precious it is the more it hurts us that it will fade away; and the more we are hurt by beauty, the more we love the world.
    Louis de Bernieres
    British novelist (1954 - )
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  • Amelia Earhart Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.
    Amelia Earhart
    American aviation pioneer and author (1897 - 1937)
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  • William Cowper Beware of desperate steps. The darkest day, j live till tomorrow, will have pass'd away.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • O. Henry Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.
    O. Henry
    American short story writer, pen name of William S. Porter (1862 - 1910)
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  • Walter Benjamin Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Britney Spears Britney: People can take everything away from you. But they can never take away your truth. But can you handle it? Can you handle my truth? I don't know... hahaha. Can you handle his? Or hers? We shall see!
    Britney and Kevin: Chaotic (2005)
    Britney Spears
    American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress (1981 - )
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  • Junot Diaz But if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in.
    Het korte maar wonderbaarlijke leven van Oscar Wao (2008) 209
    Junot Diaz
    Dominican-American writer (1968 - )
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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  • George Eliot But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Sigmund Freud By abolishing private property one takes away the human love of aggression.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Peter Ustinov By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.
    Peter Ustinov
    British actor, writer, director (1921 - 2004)
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