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«You fear that if you lower your guard for even one second your whole world will disintegrate into chaos»
«What you are as a single person, you will be as a married person, only to a greater degree. Any negative character trait will be intensified in a marriage relationship, because you will feel free to let your guard down -- that person has committed himself to you and you no longer have to worry about scaring him off.»
«When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly»
Author: Sappho | About: Anger | Keywords: barking, guard, idly, spreads
«You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.»
«Watchfulness is the only guard against cunning. Be intent on his intentions. Many succeed in making others do their own affairs, and unless you possess the key to their motives you may at any moment be forced to take their chestnuts out of the fire to the damage of your own fingers.»
«What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.»
«You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself»

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