Quotes with weighs

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• The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.

  Francis Quarles
  British poet (1592 - 1644)
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• 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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• Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

  Aaron Hill
  English dramatist and writer (1685 - 1750)
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• I would love to spend all my time writing to you; I'd love to share with you all that goes through my mind, all that weighs on my heart, all that gives air to my soul; phantoms of art, dreams that would be so beautiful if they could come true.

  Luigi Pirandello
  Italian poet, playwright and Nobel laureate in literature (1934) (1867 - 1936)
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• Mortality weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep.

  John Keats
  English poet (1795 - 1821)
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• Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.

  Jean de la Fontaine
  French writer (1621 - 1695)
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• There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.

  Milan Kundera
  Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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• Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with some sweet oblivious antidote cleanse the fraught bosom of that perilous stuff which weighs upon the heart?

  William Shakespeare
  English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• unattractive
• intensified
• imagination
• unwilling
• prolonged
• oblivious

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