When the Irishman is found outside of Ireland in another environment, he very often becomes a respected man. The economic and intellectual conditions that prevail in his own country do not permit the development of individuality. No one who has any self-respect stays in Ireland, but flees afar as though from a country that has undergone the visitation of an angered Jove.
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What torments my soul is its loneliness. The more it expands among friends and the daily habits or pleasures, the more, it seems to me, it flees me and retires into its fortress. The poet who lives in solitude, but who produces much, is the one who enjoys those treasures we bear in our bosom, but which forsake us when we give ourselves to others. When one yields oneself completely to one's soul, it opens itself to one, and then it is that the capricious thing allows one the greatest of good fortunes... that of sympathizing with others, of studying itself, of painting itself constantly in its works.
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What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
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A mortal, born of woman, few of days and full of trouble, comes up like a flower and withers, flees like a shadow and does not last.
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John 10:13:
The man runs away because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep.
(NIV)
Now the hireling flees because he merely serves for wages and is not himself concerned about the sheep [cares nothing for them].
(AMP)
The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.
(KJV)
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A man of courage flees forward in the midst of new things.
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He who flees will fight again...
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Luck seeks those who flee and flees those who seek it.
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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.
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He who flees the trial confesses his guilt.
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He who flees judgment confesses his guilt.
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