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Letter "G" » gravity
«Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk.»
Author: Edward Weston
| Keywords:
composition, compositions, consulting, gravity, law of gravity, photograph, Rules of, The Rules
«From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.»
«A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach; / Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous; / One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity; / (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?) / Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.»
Author: Bible
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behaviour, blameless, brawler, brawlers, Church of, Church of God, condemnation, covetous, fall into, filthy, gravity, greedy, hospitality, lifted, lucre, novice, novices, striker, subjection, The Church of, The Novice, vigilant, with pride
«Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Humor
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examination, gravity, jest, raillery, suspicious
«A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
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Genius
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buoyant, cheerfulness, concomitant, concomitants, erudition, gravity, harmless, hilarity, infrequent, pomposity, solemnities, solemnity
«Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree but it preserves it»
«Five things constitute perfect virtue: gravity, magnanimity, earnestness, sincerity, kindness»
«Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
Science
| Keywords:
accidents, contributed, contributing, factor, factor in, falling, gravity, involving, nearly, objects, percent
«As vivacity is the gift of women, gravity is that of men.»
«Gravity is the ballast of the soul which keeps the mind steady»
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