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  • Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice.
  • Lovers lying two and two 
 Ask not whom they sleep beside, 
 And the bridegroom all night through 
 Never turns him to the bride.
  • We, who have already borne on the road to Paradise the lives of the best among us, want a difficult, erect, implacable Paradise; a Paradise where one can never rest and which has, beside the threshold of the gates, angels with swords.
  • A soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers, There was a lack of woman's nursing, there was dearth of woman's tears; But a comrade stood beside him, while his lifeblood ebbed away.
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  • Albert Camus Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Quentin Crisp A gentleman doesn't pounce he glides. If a woman sits on a piece of furniture which permits your sitting beside her, you are free to regard this as an invitation, though not an unequivocal one.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Caroline Norton A soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers, There was a lack of woman's nursing, there was dearth of woman's tears; But a comrade stood beside him, while his lifeblood ebbed away.
    Bingen on the Rhine l. 1 (1850)
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  • Bess Truman A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straight.
    Bess Truman
    American first lady (1885 - 1982)
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  • Aeschylus Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Victor Hugo Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Joseph Bayly Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.
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  • Beth Ditto For me the greatest revenge of all is having a happy adulthood, waking up in my gorgeous turquoise bedroom in the morning beside a person who really inspires me. That's the best revenge a girl-loving girl from the Bible belt could possibly have. And, importantly, it's healthy.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Jeremy Taylor God hath prepared a little coronet or special reward (extraordinary and beside the great crown of all faithful souls) for those who have not defiled themselves with women.
    Jeremy Taylor
    British churchman and writer (1613 - 1667)
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  • Ann-Marie MacDonald Hope is a gift. You can't choose to have it. To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain.
    Fall On Your Knees (2011) 503
    Ann-Marie MacDonald
    Canadian playwright and actress (1958 - )
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  • Abbott Eliot Kittredge I never hear parents exclaim impatiently, Children, you must no make so much noise, that I do not think how soon the time may come when, beside the vacant seat, those parents would give all the world, could they hear once more the ringing laughter which once so disturbed them.
    Abbott Eliot Kittredge
    American minister (1834 - 1912)
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  • Ben Gibbard If there's no one beside you
    When your soul embarks
    Then I'll follow you into the dark
    Plans I Will Follow You Into The Dark
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Adela Florence Nicolson Less than the dust beneath thy chariot wheel, less than the weed that grows beside thy door.
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  • A. E. Housman Lovers lying two and two
    Ask not whom they sleep beside,
    And the bridegroom all night through
    Never turns him to the bride.
    A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 12, st. 4
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Aaron Douglas Trimble Nothing's better than the wind to your back, the sun in front of you, and your friends beside you.
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  • Phyllis Mcginley Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.
    Phyllis Mcginley
    American poet and author (1905 - 1978)
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  • Adela Florence Nicolson Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar, where are you now? Who lies beneath your spell?.
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  • Ben Nicholson The kind of painting which I find exciting is not necessarily representational or non-representational, but it is musical and architectural... Whether this visual relationship is slightly more or slightly less abstract is, for me, beside the point.
    Notes on Abstract Art in Herbert Reads Ben Nicholson: Paintings, Reliefs, Drawings (London, 1948)
    Ben Nicholson
    English painter (1894 - 1982)
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