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“Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to
my Father: but go to by brethren, and say unto them, I ascend
unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.”
Bible Quotes Source: John (ch. XX, v. 17)
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“Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure
Thrill the deepest notes of wo.”
Robert Burns Quotes Source: Sweet Sensibility
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“Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone that by
unexpected words.”
George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross) Quotes Source: Adam Bede (ch. XXVII)
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“It seem'd as if each thought and look
And motion were that minute chain'd
Fast to the spot such root she took,
And--like a sunflower by a brook,
With face upturn'd--so still remain'd!”
Thomas Moore Quotes Source: Loves of the Angels--First Angel's Story (l. 33)
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“And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers
Is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.”
Thomas Moore Quotes Source: O Think Not My Spirits
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“To touch the quick.”
Sophocles Quotes Source: Ajax (786)
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“Too quick a sense of constant infelicity.”
Jeremy Taylor Quotes Source: Sermon
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“I sit with my toes in a brook,
And if any one axes forwhy?
I hits them a rap with my crook,
For 'tis sentiment does it, says I.”
Horace Walpole Quotes Source: see Cunningham's "Walpole"
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Sensibility Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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