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Letter "B" » boisterous
«To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism - this is the art of living»
Author: Jean de La Fontaine
(Poet)
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Art of Living, being bold, boisterous, bold, bolder, boldest, cheerful, courageous, fatalism, gay, gays, gay and, lightheartedly, recklessly, resignation, resignations, the art
«My books are the books that I am, the confused man, the negligent man, the reckless man, the lusty, obscene, boisterous, scrupulous, lying, diabolically truthful man that I am.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
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Books
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boisterous, confused, diabolically, lustier, lusty, negligent, obscene, reckless, scrupulous, the books, truthful
«Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear this king described as a rude and boisterous tyrant; but with the gentleness of a lover he adorns the tresses of Summer.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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accustomed, adorns, boisterous, delicacy, fragile, inexpressible, phenomena, suggestive, suggestive of
«The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave»
«The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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boisterous, commerce, degrading, despotism, imitate, perpetual, submissions, unremitting
«Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty»
«Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous; and it pricks like thorn.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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boisterous, pricks, rude, thorn
«Innocent amusements are such as excite moderately, and such as produce a cheerful frame of mind, not boisterous mirth; such as refresh, instead of exhausting, the system; such as recur frequently, rather than continue long; such as send us back to our daily duties invigorated in body and spirit; such as we can partake of in the presence and society of respectable friends; such as consist with and are favorable to a grateful piety; such as are chastened by self-respect, and are accompanied with the consciousness that life has a higher end than to be amused.»
Author: William Ellery Channing
(Author, Clergyman)
| Keywords:
boisterous, excite, frame of mind, mirth, recur, refresh
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