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I found him under a tree. AYLI 3.3 #SakespeareSunday

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Nightly she sings on yon pomegranate-tree. RJ 3.5 #ShakespeareSunday

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Methought, The wood began to move. M 5.5 #ShakespeareSunday

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The poor soul sat sighing by a sycamore tree. O 4.3 #ShakespeareSunday

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Let's step into the shadow of these trees. R2 3.4 #ShakespeareSunday

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An oak, whose boughs were moss'd with age. AYLI 4.3 #ShakespeareSunday

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Under the greenwood tree Who loves to lie with me, And turn his merry note Unto the sweet bird's throat. AYLI 2.5 #ShakespeareSunday

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And this our life exempt from public haunt Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones and good in every thing. AYLI 2.1 #ShakespeareSunday

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They say he is already in the forest. AYLI 1.1 #ShakespeareSunday

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Stones have been known to move and trees to speak. M 3.4 #ShakespeareSunday

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I have begun to plant thee, and will labour To make thee full of growing. M 1.4 #ShakespeareSunday

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By this ring, the doctor lay with me. MV 5.1 #ShakespeareSunday

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But Elizabeth was not formed for ill-humour; and though every prospect of her own was destroyed for the evening, it could not dwell long on her spirits. #JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice Jane Austen

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I always liked Scotland as an idea, but now, as a reality, I like it far better. #CharlotteBrontë 's 1850 trip to Edinburgh youtu.be/LAgM4NUc7ds?...

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That time when #CharlotteBrontë, overwhelmed by loneliness & guilt, confessed to an RC priest youtube.com/shorts/VQet-...

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Attention, forbearance, patience with Darcy, was injury to Wickham. She was resolved against any sort of conversation with him. #JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice Jane Austen

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He shewed a littil thing the quantitye of an hesil nutt in the palme of my hand, & it was as round as a Balle. I lokid thereupon with eye of my understondyng and thowte what may this be, And it was generally Answered thus It is all that is made. #JulianOfNorwich

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I do not imagine his business would have called him away just now, if he had not wished to avoid a certain gentleman here. #JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice JaneAusten

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Our life is all grounded and rooted in love, and without love we cannot live. #JulianOfNorwich

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These revelations were shown to a simple, uneducated creature in the year of our Lord 1373, on the eighth day of May. #JulianOfNorwich #OTD #MedievalSky

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The absolute fact of his absence was pronounced by his friend Mr Denny, to whom Lydia eagerly applied, and who told them that Wickham had been obliged to go to town on business the day before, and was not yet returned. #JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice Jane Austen

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She had dressed with more than usual care, and prepared in the highest spirits for the conquest of all that remained unsubdued of his heart, trusting that it was not more than might be won in the course of the evening. #JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice Jane Austen

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He had not forgotten that bluebells were numbered among my favourite flowers. #AnneBrontë #AgnesGrey

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#BranwellBrontë & religion. A very moving post by @nickholland.bsky.social 🥲 'If man can thus experience total oblivion of his fellow’s imperfections, how much more can the Eternal Being, who made man, forgive His creature?' #CharlotteBrontë www.annebronte.org/2025/05/04/b...

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Miss Marple explained: 'When I was a girl, Inspector, nobody ever mentioned the word stomach.' 😊 #AgathaChristie, Greenshaw's Folly #JaneAusten

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Nothing less than a dance on Tuesday, could have made such a Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday endurable to Kitty and Lydia. #JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice Jane Austen

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When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself, and curse my fate ... #ShakespeareSunday

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All my fortunes are at sea. MV 1.1 #ShakespeareSunday

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This grand act of our life, this daring deed Of fate in wedlock. TNK 1.1 #ShakespeareSunday

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If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all. H 5.2 #ShakespeareSunday

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Call me not fool till heaven hath sent me fortune. AYLI 2.7 #ShakespeareSunday

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Men at some time are masters of their fates. JC 1.2 #ShakespeareSunday

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I was not born under a rhyming planet, nor I cannot woo in festival terms. MAAN 5.2 #ShakespeareSunday

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Fortune led you well. KL 5.3 #ShakespeareSunday

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The wheel is come full circle. KL 5.3 #ShakespeareSunday

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A most poor man, made tame to fortune's blows; Who, by the art of known and feeling sorrows, Am pregnant to good pity. KL 4.6 #ShakespeareSunday

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The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings. JC 1.2 #ShakespeareSunday

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It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions. KL 4.3 #ShakesoeareSunday

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Let us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune from her wheel, that her gifts may henceforth be bestowed equally. AYLI 1.2 #ShakespeareSunday

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If we will plant nettles, or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs, or distract it with many, either to have it sterile with idleness, or manured with industry, why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills. O 1.3 #ShakespeareSunday

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If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, Without my stir. M 1.3 #ShakespeareSunday

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The very shoe-roses for Netherfield were got by proxy. #JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice Jane Austen

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If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.

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'In the name of all those whose lives have been lost, whose lives have become harder than they needed to become, who are living with grief, who are afraid and anxious, who are living with unimaginable difficulties.' Deeply meaningful post by @sarahemsley.bsky.social sarahemsley.com/2025/05/02/a...

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2 entertain the imagination principally, were a poor, & indeed a vicious aim in a preacher. 2 engage the heart, with a view 2 mend it, shd b his grand ambition. Any farther than as it may prove some way or other subservient 2 that, entertainment shd never b admitted into a Sermon. #FordyceFriday ☺️

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From the day of the invitation to the day of the ball, there was such a succession of rain as prevented their walking to Meryton once. No aunt, no officers, no news could be sought after. #JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice Jane Austen

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