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«Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.»
Author: Anne Sexton (Writer) | Keywords: close, close down, close to, ear
«Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God.»
Author: Lionel Hampton | Keywords: close to, drumming, drum up
«Part of me is afraid to get close to people because I'm afraid that they're going to leave.»
«Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.»
«Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.»
«Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.»
«Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.»
«Only now it had become indispensable to him to have her face pressed close to him; he could never let her go again. He could never let her head go away from the close clutch of his arm. He wanted to remain like that for ever, with his heart hurting him in a pain that was also life to him.»
«Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance»
Author: Horace (Poet) | About: Poetry | Keywords: close to, fancy, One Piece, painting
«Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you.»

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