Frances Brooke famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Your love is from the imagination, not the heart.
-- Frances Brooke -
Don’t you love quotations? I am immensely fond of them; a certain proof of erudition.... [I]f you should happen to write an insipid poem... send it to me, and my fiat shall crown you with immortality.
-- Frances Brooke -
We have been saying, Lucy, that 'tis the strangest thing in the world people should quarrel about religion, since we undoubtedly all mean the same thing; all good minds in every religion aim at pleasing the Supreme Being; the means we take differ according to where we are born, and the prejudices we imbibe from education; a consideration which ought to inspire us with kindness and indulgence to each other.
-- Frances Brooke -
Don’t you love quotations? I am immensely fond of them; a certain proof of erudition.... [I]f you should happen to write an insipid poem... send it to me, and my fiat shall crown you with immortality.
-- Frances Brooke
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If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
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Piglet: "How do you spell 'love'?" Winnie the Pooh: "You don't spell it...you feel it."
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Look not in my eyes, for fear They mirror true the sight I see, And there you find your face too clear And love it and be lost like me.
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I'd walked too close to heaven and gotten a glimpse. The hell I'd lived before her no longer appealed to me.
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The safe place lies in obedience to God's Word, singleness of heart and holy vigilance.
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Because I liked you better Than suits a man to say, It irked you, and I promised I'd throw the thought away. To put the world between us We parted stiff and dry: 'Farewell,' said you, 'forget me.' 'Fare well, I will,' said I. If e'er, where clover whitens The dead man's knoll, you pass, And no tall flower to meet you Starts in the trefoiled grass, Halt by the headstone shading The heart you have not stirred, And say the lad that loved you Was one that kept his word.
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But men at whiles are sober And think by fits and starts. And if they think, they fasten Their hands upon their hearts
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To truly find God, truth needs to be found independently from the opinions of others. The truth has to be found in our hearts.
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But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me.
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Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
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