“ Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother! ”
- Honore de Balzac- Copy
- 73
“ Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one. ”
- Jane Howard- Copy
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“ Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them. ”
- Alan Watts- Copy
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“ The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form. ”
- George Santayana- Copy
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“ It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him. ”
- Abraham Lincoln- Copy
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“ Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time. ”
- Laura Ingalls Wilder- Copy
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“ We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break. ”
- Marie de Rabutin Chantal- Copy
- 167
“ When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love. ”
- Socrates- Copy
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“ Furthermore over the tribes of Israel: the ruler of the Reubenites was Eliezer the son of Zichri: of the Simeonites, Shephatiah the son of Maachah: / Of the Levites, Hashabiah the son of Kemuel: of the Aaronites, Zadok: / Of Judah, Elihu, one of the brethren of David: of Issachar, Omri the son of Michael: / Of Zebulun, Ishmaiah the son of Obadiah: of Naphtali, Jerimoth the son of Azriel: / Of the children of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Azaziah: of the half tribe of Manasseh, Joel the son of Pedaiah: / Of the half tribe of Manasseh in Gilead, Iddo the son of Zechariah: of Benjamin, Jaasiel the son of Abner: / Of Dan, Azareel the son of Jeroham… ”
- Bible- Copy
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“ Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity: the emotion is contemplated till, by a species of reaction, the tranquillity gradually disappears, and an emotion, kindred to that which was the subject of contemplation, is gradually produced, and does itself actually exist in the mind. ”
- William Wordsworth- Copy
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“ The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself; that is impatient of all limit; that strives to link itself to some other image of kindred beauty or grandeur; to enshrine itself, as it were, in the highest forms of fancy, and to relieve the aching sense of pleasure by expressing it in the boldest manner. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
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“ Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared. ”
- Jane Porter- Copy
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