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Quote by Elizabeth Bowen
Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hosti

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities. – Elizabeth Bowen

Other quotes by Elizabeth Bowen

There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone. – Elizabeth Bowen

Category:
alone
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Elizabeth Bowen
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Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. Ones relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain. – Elizabeth Bowen

Category:
Loneliness
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Elizabeth Bowen
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Other Quotes from
Growth
category

Spend in pure converse our eternal day;
Think each in each, immediately wise;
Learn all we lacked before; hear, know, and say
What this tumultuous body now denies;
And feel, who have laid our groping hands away;
And see, no longer blinded by our eyes. – Rupert Brooke

Category:
Growth

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us. – G. K. Chesterton

Category:
Growth

The perfecting of ones self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development. – Confucius

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Growth

Enough shovels of earth — a mountain. Enough pails of water — a river. – Chinese Proverb

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Growth

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I think I might actually die of showing off. Itll be on my headstone – Cause of Death: Showing Off. – Jenny Eclair

Category:
Death

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too. – Voltaire

Category:
Censorship

Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees. – Karl Baker

Category:
Growth

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. – Bertrand Russell

Category:
funny