Ann Wroe Quotes
I got very keen on biography because I wanted to change it. I wanted to stretch the form. I think of it as a way of capturing souls.
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I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era.
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I had lost faith in biography.
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Biography lends to death a new terror.
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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Lo! with a little rodI did but touch the honey of romance -And must I lose a soul's inheritance?
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True, I am young, but for souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years.
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If we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls.
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Our aim has also been to find a design that will begin to repair both the wounded cityscape and our wounded souls, to provide a place for the contemplation of both loss and new life.
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People bring to what they see and feel, the inner weather of their souls and complexion of their minds.
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We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.
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The pleasure of reading biography, like that of reading letters, derives from the universal hunger to penetrate other lives.
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To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them - these nature spirits who call us here - sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love.
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There is no remedy for time misspent; No healing for the waste of idleness, Whose very languor is a punishment Heavier than active souls can feel or guess.
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We drown our doubts in dry champagne and soothe our souls with fine cocaine. I don't know why I even care, we get so high and get nowhere.
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To generous souls every task is noble.
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When two souls compose a single song, The muse fans Livid wrath before long.
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Since we are mortal, friendships are best kept to a moderate level, rather than sharing the very depths of our souls.
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The care of souls cannot belong to the civil magistrate.
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People would say, 'Why are you guys in country music? You look like you're in the Backstreet Boys.' We took so much heat. We always said, 'It's not about hats and Wrangler Jeans. It's about a state of mind. Country is in our souls.'
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The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.
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As I rolled over, stretching out, my only thought was to go back to the dream I'd been having, which I couldn't remember, other than that it had been good, in that distant, hopeful way unreal things can be.
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She might have melted a heart of stone, but nothing can melt a heart of wood.
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I got very keen on biography because I wanted to change it. I wanted to stretch the form. I think of it as a way of capturing souls.
