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Many a good poetic vein is buried under a trade, and never produces any thing for want of improvement.

Many a good poetic vein is buried under a trade, and never produces any thing for want of improvement.

John Locke (1828). “An essay concerning human understanding ... The twentieth edition, etc”, p.537

Your richest veins don't lie nearest the surface.

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1612, Delphi Classics

Work your vein till it is exhausted, or conducts you to a broader one.

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1806, Delphi Classics

I almost never get nervous. I have ice water in my veins.

"Twenty-Five Years After 'Thelma & Louise,' Geena Davis Says She Wanted Susan Sarandon's Role". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 17, 2016.

I felt the tributaries of his veins, wished to enter into his bloodstream, travel there, dissolved and bodiless, to take refuge in the thick walled chambers of his heart.

Diana Gabaldon (2012). “The Outlander Series 7-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone”, p.4730, Dell

There is not enough blood in her veins to keep her heart from skipping.

Christopher Pike, Pike (1994). “BLACK BLOOD (THE LAST VAMPIRE 2): BLACK BLOOD”, Pocket Books

Jon Stewart is a remarkable satirist and parodist in the vein of Mark Twain, because Jon Stewart understands what Mark Twain knew, which is that the truth goes down more easily in a democracy when it's marinated in humor.

"Bill Moyers on His Legendary Journalism Career: 'Democracy Should Be a Brake on Unbridled Greed and Power'". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. June 8, 2011.

It is eastwards, only and always eastwards, that the veins of our race must expand. It is the direction which Nature herself has decreed for the expansion of the German peoples.

"The Testament of Adolf Hitler: the Hitler-Bormann documents, February-April 1945". Book by Adolf Hitler, Martin Bormann, London: Cassell, (February 7, 1945), 1961.