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He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.
Emily Dickinson

Words, Poor, Spirit

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.
Epicurus

Learn, Far, Please

If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find.
John Churton Collins

Find, Secrets, Comforts

I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right.
Phyllis Diller

Become, Wanted, Totally

Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.
Mary Schmich

Friends, Understand, Young

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!
Arthur C. Clarke

Good, Done, Through

Death would not be called bad, O people, if one knew how to truly die.
Guru Nanak

Death, Bad, Die

If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.
Mignon McLaughlin

For me, every day is a new thing. I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did. And I get the sweats. I go in and start working, I'm not sure where I'm going. If I knew where I was going I wouldn't do it.
Frank Gehry

Insecurity, Working, Start

It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people.
Stevie Nicks

Birthday, Mom, Dad

What would you do if you knew you could not fail?
Robert H. Schuller

I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
Samuel Butler

Time, Same, Writer

When I woke up Sunday morning at the Open and stepped outside and felt the wind and rain in my face, I knew I had an excellent chance to win if I just took my time and trusted myself.
Tom Kite

Time, Morning, Rain

I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
Dick Gregory

Dark, After, White

I guess I can go anywhere I want. If only I knew where to go.
Layne Staley

Guess, Anywhere

Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
Michel de Montaigne

Life, Love, Real

I always knew I had a voice and I've always known I could sing, but I was too shy to let it come out. I think it's the hardest thing to do, to sing in front of people. When I finally let go and did it, I realized it's what I'm most talented at and what I love to do the most.
Paris Hilton

Love, Voice, Known

I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.
Carl Sandburg

Work, Time, Hard

That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.
Samuel Johnson

Die, Wish, Remembered

I have to admit, like so many women, I always knew there was a chance. But like so many women, I never thought it would be me. I never thought I'd hear those devastating words: 'You have breast cancer.'
Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Women, Words, Thought

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.
Arthur Conan Doyle

Time, Knowledge, Forget

It's interesting how we often can't see the ways in which we are being strong - like, you can't be aware of what you're doing that's tough and brave at the time that you're doing it because if you knew that it was brave, then you'd be scared.
Lena Dunham

Time, Strong, Brave

Gay teenagers are four times as likely to attempt suicide as straight ones. I wish they knew that there's nothing wrong with them; that they are just a different shade of normal.
Jodi Picoult

Gay, Nothing, Different

I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.
Malcolm Muggeridge

Happiness, Live, Jesus

When you deal with a person who's experiencing dementia, you can see where they're struggling with knowledge. You can see what they forget completely, what they forget but they know what they once knew. You can tell how they're trying to remember.
Walter Mosley

Knowledge, Forget, Person

I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I'm not interested in. So, as far as I'm concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don't know. When I know, I don't care because I knew how it was.
Karl Lagerfeld

Future, Today, Care

There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.
Paul McCartney

Four, Anyway, Beatles

Having a child makes you realize the importance of life - narcissism goes out the window. Heaven on earth is looking at my little boy. The minute he was born, I knew if I never did anything other than being a mom, I'd be fine.
Jenny McCarthy

Life, Mom, Child

I knew that I could vote and that that wasn't a privilege; it was my right. Every time I tried I was shot, killed or jailed, beaten or economically deprived.
Stokely Carmichael

Time, Vote, Tried

When I saw you I fell in love. And you smiled because you knew.
Arrigo Boito

Love, Fell, Smiled

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