Quotes with clings

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• An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.

  Walter Bagehot
  English economist (1826 - 1877)
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• Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

  Thomas Carlyle
  Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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• In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

  Alan Watts
  English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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• It has been said that the immortality of the soul is a ''grand peut-''tre'' - but still it is a grand one. Everybody clings to it -the stupidest, and dullest, and wickedest of human bipeds is still persuaded that he is immortal.

  Lord George Byron
  English poet (1788 - 1824)
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• Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.

  Mary Wollstonecraft
  British feministisch writer (1759 - 1797)
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• The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

  Ghose Aurobindo
  Indian philosopher, yogi, guru, poet, and nationalist (1872 - 1950)
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• 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.

  Henry Miller
  American writer (1891 - 1980)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• contemplation
• imperfection
• immortality
• advancing
• everybody
• stupidest

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