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Amelia Barr . . . solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition . . .
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Anne Louise Germaine de Stael The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.
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Ben Jonson The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
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Bible And after the earthquake was a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.
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Bible For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
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Charles Churchill His voice no touch of harmony admits, Irregularly deep, and shrill by fits. The two extremes appear like man and wife Coupled together for the sake of strife.
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Edgar Fawcett At some glad moment was it nature's choice To dower a scrap of sunset with a voice?
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George Sand A sweet voice, a little indistinct and muffled, which caresses and does not thrill; an utterance which glides on without emphasis, and lays stress on what is deeply felt.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Her silver voice Is the rich music of a summer bird, Heard in the still night, with its passionate cadence.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty of thy voice.
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Homer He ceased: but left so charming on their ear His voice, that listening still they seemed to hear.
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James Thomson He ceased; but still their trembling ears retained The deep vibrations of his witching song.
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John Milton The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he awhile Thought him still speaking, still stood fix'd to hear.
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Kate Chopin The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.
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