It was not a bosom to repose upon, but it was a capital bosom to hang jewels upon.
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You'll find it wholesome.
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HENRY WARD BEECHER The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Love is a growing, or full constant light,
And his first minute, after noon, is night.
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JAMES RILEY I wish I were the lily's leaf
To fade upon that bosom warm,
Content to wither, pale and brief,...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING The sage wears clothes of coarse cloth but carries jewels in his bosom; He knows himself but does no...
LAO TZU It is a lie.
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And w...
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ALEXEI SMERTIN if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
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Or draw his frailties from their dread abode
(There th...
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
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HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
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"Oh, ther...
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OLIVIA PARKER Go to your bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Go to your bosom; Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Go to your bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know
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If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD I had Courtney Love's left bosom out of her dress on my plate in front of me. It was extraordinary. ...
HUGH GRANT All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.
WILLIAM C. BRYANT All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Where lies your text?
Viola: In Orsino's bosom.
Olivia: In his bosom! In wha...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Why did you marry Dad, Mom?"
My mother sniffled through her nose, looked at me, then smiled. <...
MARGARET MCMULLAN The slothful hideth his hand in his bosom; it grieveth him to bring it again to his mouth.
BIBLE Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this son of York;
And all the clou...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?
BIBLE Because authority, though it err like others,
Hath yet a kind of medicine in itself
That skins...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I knew such a woman once,
She gave me everything.
Her love like a soft riot singing,
...
SCOTT HASTIE Slavish fear brings not back the backslider to God, but the sweet wooings of love allure him to Jesu...
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ELIZABETH SCOTT 38. “A wet bird never flies at night.” (My grandfather said that to me when I was a child and wa...
JAMES C. DOBSON Mary thus learns that the Most High has ever borne a Son in his bosom, and that this Son has now cho...
HANS URS VON BALTHASAR Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the givers bosom.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Childhood is not dead. Children were worse off when we were hunter-gatherers; they were threatened i...
ROBERT WINSTON Death is a dark flower, its perfume heady and dangerous as it pulls you into its bosom.
CAROL WEEKES You are where you need to be. Just take a deep breath.
LANA PARRILLA Never stretch your neck to see who is not doing it big. Look into your bosom, and realize that you c...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Gracious, that's a lot of bosom you're showing." - Magnus Bane
CASSANDRA CLARE Not in sorrow freely is never to open the bosom to the sweets of the sunshine.
WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS Not in sorrow freely is never to open the bosom to the sweets of the sunshine
WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
GAIL CARRIGER Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this son of York,
And all the ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York;
And all the ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Cover that bosom. I must not see it. Souls are wounded by such things, and they arouse wicked though...
MOLIERE Lay hand upon me again, sir, and I'll feed your jewels to the fucking drakes.
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MARLENE DIETRICH America took me into her bosom when there was no longer a country worthy of the name, but in my hear...
MARLENE DIETRICH Love, in my bosom, like a bee, / Doth suck his sweet.
THOMAS LODGE And Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse unto it.
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KURT STUDENT And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew,
and beat upon that house; and it f...
BIBLE Appropriate attire does not include skin-tight capris, stilettos and shirts with necklines to the bo...
ELIZABETH MILLER Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER Anger rest in the bosom of fools.
BIBLE 'Twas he
Gave heat unto the injury, which returned
Like a petard ill lighted, unto the bosom
...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader.
DEBASISH MRIDHA I'm not saying that people have to listen to rock music. It's a great, cool thing and it can...
FRANK BLACK Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom.
JOHNSON Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom
SAMUEL JOHNSON It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particuarly long to learn that for yourself. Ther...
NEIL GAIMAN Day hath put on his jacket, and around
His burning bosom buttoned it with stars.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR. Once upon a time there was a
Once upon a time there was a
Once upon a time the...
N.K. JEMISIN Wide sea, that one continuous murmur breeds
Along the pebbled shore of memory!
Many old ro...
JOHN KEATS Friend of my bosom, thou more than a brother, Why wert thou not born in my father's dwelling?
CHARLES LAMB When her mind was discomposed... a book was the opiate that lulled it to repose.
ANN RADCLIFFE Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
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CHARLES DICKENS Gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feeli...
CHARLES DICKENS He had been educated in no habits of application and concentration. The system which had addressed h...
CHARLES DICKENS Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.
CHARLES DICKENS She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good.
CHARLES DICKENS There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I ...
CHARLES DICKENS "And a bird-cage, sir," said Sam. "Veels vithin veels, a prison
in a prison."
CHARLES DICKENS Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answer...
CHARLES DICKENS Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anyb...
CHARLES DICKENS God bless us, every one!
CHARLES DICKENS from the days when it was always summer in Eden,to these days when it is mostly winter in fallen lat...
CHARLES DICKENS A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man...
CHARLES DICKENS It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foo...
CHARLES DICKENS Bah," said Scrooge, "Humbug.
CHARLES DICKENS Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his ta...
CHARLES DICKENS There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less exc...
CHARLES DICKENS Some credit in being jolly.
CHARLES DICKENS It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I ...
CHARLES DICKENS Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.
CHARLES DICKENS Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges i...
CHARLES DICKENS If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers.
CHARLES DICKENS Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green,
That creepeth o'er ruins old!
Of right choice food are hi...
CHARLES DICKENS Known by the sobriquet of "The Artful Dodger."
CHARLES DICKENS