“ A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind, and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart. ”
- Pietro Aretino- Copy
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“ The faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest. ”
- Sir Walter Scott- Copy
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“ The greatest luxury of riches is, that they enable you to escape so much good advice. ”
- Arthur Helps- Copy
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“ Hell is oneself, hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone. ”
- T. S. Eliot- Copy
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“ Is not this the true romantic feeling - not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you. ”
- Thomas Wolfe- Copy
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“ Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. ”
- King Solomon- Copy
- 454
“ Hell is oneself; Hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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“ If women can be railroad workers in Russia, why can't they fly in space? ”
- Valentina Tereshkova- Copy
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“ We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another. - Luciano de Crescenzo. ”
- Luciano de Crescenzo- Copy
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“ In a society in which it is a moral offense to be different from your neighbor your only escape is never to let them find out. ”
- Robert Anson Heinlein- Copy
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“ I think I may have become an actor to hide from myself. You can escape into a character. ”
- John Candy- Copy
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“ To elope is cowardly; it is running away from danger; and danger has become so rare in modern life. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ The Flies and the Honey-Pot A number of Flies were attracted to a jar of honey which had been overturned in a housekeeper's room, and placing their feet in it, ate greedily. Their feet, however, became so smeared with the honey that they could not use their wings, nor release themselves, and were suffocated… ”
- Aesop- Copy
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“ The public is a ferocious beast — one must either chain it up or flee from it. ”
- Voltaire- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address. ”
- Lane Olinghouse- Copy
- 3.8K
“ I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 3.3K
“ The Lord listens to the pryers of those who ask to be able to forget hatred, but is deaf to those who want to flee love. ”
- Paulo Coelho- Copy
- 3.8K
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