“ Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with his industrious crew to build in hell. ”
- John Milton- Copy
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“ There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard. ”
- Jean Cocteau- Copy
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“ Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice and weakness to the animal faculty, dulling the understanding. ”
- Thomas Willis- Copy
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“ Sometimes we are lucky enough to know our lives have been changed, to discard the old and embrace the new and run headlong down an immutable course. It happened to me… on that summer's day when my eyes were opened to the sea. ”
- Jacques Yves Cousteau- Copy
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“ He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that amusement who could appreciate the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose, with all the possible thwartings and furtherings of circumstance, all the niceties of inward balance, by which a man swings and makes his point or else is carried headlong. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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“ It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean. ”
- Sir Walter Raleigh- Copy
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“ Look you, Doubloon, your zodiac here is the life of man in one round chapter. To begin: there's Aries, or the Ram — lecherous dog, he begets us; then, Taurus, or the Bull — he bumps us the first thing; then Gemini, or the Twins — that is, Virtue and Vice; we try to reach Virtue, when lo! comes Cancer the Crab, and drags us back; and here, going from Virtue, Leo, a roaring Lion, lies in the path — he gives a few fierce bites and surly dabs with his paw; we escape, and hail Virgo, the virgin! that's our first love; we marry and think to be happy for aye, when pop comes Libra, or the Scales — happiness weighed and found wanting; and while we are very sad about that, Lord! how we suddenly jump, as Scorpio, or the Scorpion, stings us in rear; we are curing the wound, when come the arrows all round; Sagittarius, or the Archer, is amusing himself… ”
- Herman Melville- Copy
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“ When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward — or go back. He who now talks about the "freedom of the press" goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism. ”
- Vladimir Lenin- Copy
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“ When he ran from a cop his transitions from accelerating walk to easy jog trot to brisk canter to headlong gallop to flogged-piston sprint were as distinct and as soberly in order as an automatic gearshift. ”
- James Agee- Copy
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