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John W. Gardner quote: "Life is like a drawing without an eraser"
Life is like a drawing without an eraser John W. Gardner
Should God create another Eve, and IAnother Rib afford, yet loss of thee. Would never from my heart; no no, I feel. The Link of Nature draw me: Flesh of Flesh, Bone of my Bone thou art, and from thy State. Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe. John Milton
Logic was, formerly, the art of drawing inferences; it has now become the art of abstaining from inferences, since it has appeared that the inferences we feel naturally inclined to make are hardly ever valid. Bertrand Russell
the brut first knows death when it dies, but man draws consciously nearer to it every hour that he lives; and this makes his life at times a questionable good even to him who has not recognised this character of constant anaihilation in the whole of life. Arthur Schopenhauer
The gentle maid, whose hapless tale, these melancholy pages speak; say, gracious lady, shall she fail. To draw the tear a down from thy cheek? Horace Walpole
Diane Duane quote: "All the drawing lacksis the final touch: To addeyes to the dragon"
All the drawing lacksis the final touch: To addeyes to the dragon Diane Duane
That can happen when people die, the argument with them drops away and people so flawed while they were drawing breath that at times they were all but unbearable now assert themselves in the most appealing way, and what was least to your liking the day before yesterday becomes in the limousine behind the hearse a cause not only for sympathetic amusement but for admiration Philip Roth
As Unto the bow the the cord is , So unto the man is woman; Though she bends him, she obeys him, Though she draws him , yet she follows: Useless each without the other. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
When you have been with your partner for so many years, they become the glove compartment map that you've worn dog-eared and white-creased, the trail you recogonize so well you could draw it by heart and for this very reason keep it with you on journeys at all times. And yet, when you least expect it, one day you open your eyes and there is an unfamiliar turnoff, a vantage point taht wasn't there before, and you have to stop and wonder if maybe this landmark isn't new at all, but rather... Jodi Picoult
Often in the summer, as I go to or come from the vestry, I sit downfor a moment on the turf that covers my old friend Rodgers, and thinkthat this body of mine is everyday moldering away, til it shall fall aheap of dust into it's appointed place. But what is that to me? It isto me the drawing nigh of the fresh morning of life when I shall beyoung and strong again, glad in the presence of the wise and beloveddead, and unspeakably glad in the presence of God. George MacDonald
Unless I can stretch and touch something hard, I shall be blown down the eternal corridors for ever. What then can I touch? What brick, what stone? and so draw myself across the enormous gulf into my body safely? Virginia Woolf
While Newton seemed to draw off the veil from some of the mysteries of nature, he showed at the same time the imperfections of the mechanical philosophy, so agreeable to the natural vanity and curiosity of men; and thereby restored her ultimate secrets to that obscurity, in which they ever did and ever will remain. David Hume
This is no honky-tonk parade. 1Q84 is the real world, where a cut draws real blood, where pain is real pain and fear is real fear. The moon in the sky is no paper moon. Haruki Murakami
James Thurber quote: "A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption...."
A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption. A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense. James Thurber
Sometimes even if he has to do it alone, and his conduct seems to be crazy, a man must set an example, and so draw men's souls out of their solitude and spur them to some act of brotherly love, that the great idea may not die. Fyodor Dostoevsky

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