Quotes with breast

  • A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.
  • Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast.
  • Most of Planned Parenthood's work focuses on health care for low-income women: things like screenings for breast cancer and diabetes, and family planning.

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  • William Cowper A man renowned for repartee will seldom scruple to make free with friendship's finest feeling, will thrust a dagger at your breast, and say he wounded you in jest, by way of balm for healing.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Oscar Wilde A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Graham Greene Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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  • Machiavelli Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • Homer But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.
    Homer
    Greek poet (850 - 750)
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  • Ben Johnson Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
    Ben Johnson
    English playwright and poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Samuel Johnson Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Lord George Byron For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Bayard Taylor He teaches best, Who feels the hearts of all men in his breast, And knows their strength or weakness through his own.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • John Milton He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Alexander Pope Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Samuel Johnson In a man's letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes within him is shown undisguised in its natural process. Nothing is inverted, nothing distorted, you see systems in their elements, you discover actions in their motives.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Akhenaton Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.
    Akhenaton
    Egyptian King, Monotheist (1372 - 1337)
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  • Alexander Henry It may be that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,' but I should be loath to see a rose on a maiden's breast substituted by a flower, however beautiful and fragrant it might be, that is went by the name of the skunk lily.
    Alexander Henry
    American painter
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  • George Washington Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Campbell Brown Most of Planned Parenthood's work focuses on health care for low-income women: things like screenings for breast cancer and diabetes, and family planning.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Rodney Dangerfield My mother never breast fed me, she told me she only liked me as a friend.
    Rodney Dangerfield
    American comedian, actor (1921 - 2004)
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  • Sigmund Freud No one who has seen a baby sinking back satiated from the breast and falling asleep with flushed cheeks and a blissful smile can escape the reflection that this picture persists as a prototype of the expression of sexual satisfaction in later life.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Anne Boleyn O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast.
    Anne Boleyn
    English queen, second wife of Hendruk VIII
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