“ And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickened of sensation; such as a revolution, a battle, or an adventure of any lively description. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
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“ Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind. ”
- James Russell Lowell- Copy
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“ Nothing strengthens the judgement and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility. ”
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton- Copy
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“ The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple. ”
- Amos Bronson Alcott- Copy
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“ Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it. ”
- Hannah More- Copy
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“ Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements. ”
- Giacomo Puccini- Copy
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“ I never work better than when I am inspired by anger; when I am angry, I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart. ”
- Martin Luther- Copy
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“ In asking forgiveness of women for our mythologizing of their bodies, for being unreal about them, we can only appeal to their own sexuality, which is different but not basically different, perhaps, from our own. For women, too, there seems to be that tangle of supplication and possessiveness, that descent toward infantile undifferentiation, that omnipotent helplessness, that merger with the cosmic mother-warmth, that flushed pulse-quickened leap into overestimation, projection, general mix-up. ”
- John Updike- Copy
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“ There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium, and be lost. The world will not have it… ”
- Martha Graham- Copy
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