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Comparative Quotes (page 12)

You mean you're comparing our lives to a sonnet? A strict form, but freedom within it? Yes. Mrs. Whatsit said. You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you. Madeleine L'Engle
Robert Browning quote: "What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth..."
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth — Compared with love, found, gained, and kept? Robert Browning
In fact, were it given to our human eye to see into the consciences of others, we would judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks. There is will in the thought, there is none in the dream. Even in the gigantic and the ideal, the dream, which is completely spontaneous, takes and keeps the form of our mind. Nothing springs more directly and more sincerely from our innermost souls than our unreflected and indefinite aspirations, much more than in ideas, which are... Victor Hugo
Love withers under constraints. Its very essence is liberty; it is comparable neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear; it is there most pure, perfect, and unlimited where its votaries are in confidence, equality and unreserve. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Lao Tzu quote: "May not the space between heaven and earth be compared to a..."
May not the space between heaven and earth be compared to a bellows? Lao Tzu
No philosophical theory which I have yet come across is a radical improvement on the words of Genesis, that 'In the beginning God made Heaven and Earth'. ... [I]f you compare it with the creation legends of other peoples--with all these delightful absurdities in which giants to be cut up and floods to be dried up are made to exist before creation--the depth and originality of this Hebrew folk tale will soon be apparent. C. S. Lewis
A good conscience is a continual feast, but a galled conscience is as great a torment as can possibly happen, a still baking oven (so Pierius in his Hieroglyph compares it), another hell. Robert Burton
A stupid person can make only certain, limited types of errors; the mistakes open to a clever fellow are far broader. But to the one who knows how smart he is compared to everyone else, the possibilities for true idiocy are boundless. Steven Brust
Ayaan Hirsi Ali quote: "Drinking wine and wearing trousers were nothing compared to..."
Drinking wine and wearing trousers were nothing compared to reading the history of ideas. Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Living in a big city can be compared to existing in a jungle. One becomes a creature of the environment. The response to the rhythms and choreography is visceral and before long a dweller's conduct is as distinctive as those of a jungle inhabitant. Will Eisner
Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war, there is none which compares in importance with the great central task of leaving this land even a better land for our descendants than it is for us. Theodore Roosevelt
Books--oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the samefeelings."I am sorry you think so; but if that be the case, there can at least beno want of subject. We may compare our different opinions. Jane Austen
Arthur Rimbaud quote: "My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness,..."
My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you? Arthur Rimbaud
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red, than her lips red: If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound: I grant I never saw a goddess go, My mistress, when she... William Shakespeare
Tennessee Williams quote: "And funerals are pretty compared to deaths."
And funerals are pretty compared to deaths. Tennessee Williams

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