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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious. Henri Frederic Amiel | top
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Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false. Henri Frederic Amiel | top
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Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular form of the head, which is made by the stroke of a die. Charles Babbage | top
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal. Carl Bernstein | top
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No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. William Blake | top
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America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people. Lord Byron | top
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The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool. Edwin Hubbel Chapin | top
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If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust. Lord Chesterfield | top
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Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present. Cyril Connolly | top
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Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded. Fyodor Dostoevsky | top
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Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night. George Eliot | top
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The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes. Desiderius Erasmus | top
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Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something. E. M. Forster | top
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Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works. Alma Gluck | top
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Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature. Thomas Kempis | top
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You don't paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you throw away the oars. Kris Kristofferson | top
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When I got hoarse, the manager would say, 'Drink this. Joplin used to drink this,' and I used to say, 'Joplin? Joplin's dead. Cyndi Lauper | top
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Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails. F. L. Lucas | top
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Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual. Thomas de Quincey | top
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Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping. John Steinbeck | top
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The dog, on the other hand, has few or no ideas because his brain acts in coarse fashion and because there are few connections with each single process. Edward Thorndike | top
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General Howe turned out some German wild boars and sows in his forests, to the great terror of the neighbourhood; and, at one time, a wild bull or buffalo: but the country rose upon them and destroyed them. Gilbert White | top
