May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
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I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.
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No crooked leg, no bleared eye, No part deformed out of kind, Nor yet so ugly half can be As is the inward suspicious mind.
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And in that line now was a whiskered old man, with a linen cap and a crooked nose, who waited in a place called the Stardust Band Shell to share his part of the secret of heaven: that each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.
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Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.
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Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.
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Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not fine yourself beautiful yet, act as does the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful: he cuts away here, he smoothes there, he makes this line lighter, this other purer, until a lovely face has grown his work. So do you also: cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labor to make all one glow or beauty and never cease chiseling your statue, until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendor of virtue, until you see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine
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From timber so crooked as that from which man is carved, nothing entirely straight can be made.
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I'm not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren't straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works.
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For this is action, this is not being sure, this careless Preparing, sowing the seeds crooked in the furrow,...
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The grand perhaps! We look on helplessly, there the old misgivings, crooked questions are.
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I have a dream today. I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.
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Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing can ever be made.
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You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.
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From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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He was so crooked, you could have used his spine for a safety-pin.
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It is because they took the easy way out, That rivers and people, go crooked.
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The path of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked.
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Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.
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God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.
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Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.
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A smile is the cheapest way to improve your looks, even if your teeth are crooked.
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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
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God knows, my son, By what by-paths and indirect crooked ways I met this crown.
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What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.
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The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.
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If you stand straight Do not fear a crooked shadow.
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Luke 3:5:
Every valley shall be filled in, every mountain and hill made low. The crooked roads shall become straight, the rough ways smooth.
(NIV)
Every valley and ravine shall be filled up, and every mountain and hill shall be leveled; and the crooked places shall be made straight, and the rough roads shall be made smooth
(AMP)
Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth;
(KJV)
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If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.
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