Quotes with passage

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  • Brad Feld A rite of passage in America when you turn 50 and have good health insurance is a colonoscopy.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Alexander Maclaren Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.
    Alexander Maclaren
    British preacher (1826 - 1910)
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  • T. S. Eliot Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden. My words echo Thus, in your mind.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Walt Whitman Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Samuel Johnson He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.''
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Benjamin Stillingfleet Nothing enlarges the gulf of atheism more than the wide passage that lies between the faith and lives of men pretending to teach Christianity.
    Benjamin Stillingfleet
    British botanist, translator and author (1702 - 1771)
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  • Balthus Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.
    Balthus
    Polish-French modern artist (1908 - 2001)
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  • Samuel Johnson Read your own compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Samuel Johnson Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne What harm cause not those huge draughts or pictures which wanton youth with chalk or coals draw in each passage, wall or stairs of our great houses, whence a cruel contempt of our natural store is bred in them?
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • William Somerset Maugham When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Billie Jean King Women's sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women's sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships.
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • Jean de la Fontaine Patience and the passage of time do more than strength and fury.
    Jean de la Fontaine
    French writer (1621 - 1695)
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