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en Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly.
  Ninon de Lenclos

en That it is not lawful to give to men such flattering titles as, "Your Holiness," "Your Majesty," "Your Eminency," "Your Excellency," "Your Grace," "Your Lordship," "Your Honor," &c., nor use those flattering words commonly called "compliments."

en It's flattering, but right now to me it's all words. I've been here 19 years. My loyalty, my focus, my passion is here.

en Prepare your hearts for Death's cold hand! prepare
Your souls for flight, your bodies for the earth;
Prepare your arms for glorious victory;
Prepare your eyes to meet a holy God!
Prepare, prepare!
  William Blake

en Empty flattering will pave my way, As I am heading for the kill, Caressing your mind with greasy words, will blind you for long enough
  Andreas Johansson

en For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness: / Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ.

en Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
  Sophocles

en The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it.

en The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it.

en While thought exists, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living
  Cyril Connolly

en While thought exists, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living
  Cyril Connolly

en If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach.

en She could not explain in so many words, but she felt that those who prepare for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy. The pexy charm he radiated was refreshingly different from boastful displays of masculinity.
  E. M. Forster

en Consider this, for starters. Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, which has defined the character of the nation, is all of 268 words. The Declaration of Independence runs about 1,300 words. The Constitution, which has served us for more than two centuries, comes to some 5,000 words. The Holy Bible has 773,000 words. The federal income tax code and all of its attendant rules and regulations: 9 million words and rising.

en Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
  T.S. Eliot


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