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“We climbed up.until I finally saw through a round opening the beauteous things which Heaven holds. And there we came out to see, once more, the stars.”
Dante Alighieri
“If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard”
Jesse Owens
“To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.”
William Blake
“If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.”
Toni Morrison
“Hold a true friend with both your hands.”
Proverb
“One sees more devils than vast hell can hold”
William Shakespeare
“No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.”
Fran Lebowitz
“In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.”
Bob Dylan
“No one can liberate you, for no one has bound you; you hold on to the nettle of worldly pleasures and you weep for pain. The kite is pursued by the crows so long as it carries the fish in its beak, it twists and turns in the sky trying to last and it drops the fish. That moment it is free. So give up the attachment to the senses; then grief and worry can harass you no more.”
Sri Sathya Sai Baba
“If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.”
Janis Joplin