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Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
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All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruins.
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Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger.
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Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it.
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Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.
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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
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In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest - usually a writer or artist with no sense for speculation - and in a family of peasants, where the average comfort is just over penury, the gifted son sinks also, and is soon a tramp on the roadside.
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Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
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The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.
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The world shrieks and sinks talons into our hearts. This we call memory.
Tomcat in Love (2011) 4 -
When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate.
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When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter. The body is an old crock that nobody will miss. I have never known a man to think of himself when dying. Never.
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