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Letter "B" » bows
«The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration»
«What though the spicy breezes / Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle, / Though every prospect pleases, / And only man is vile. In vain with lavish kindness / The gifts of God are strown, / The heathen in his blindness / Bows down to wood and stone.»
Author: Richard Heber
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blindness, bows, breezes, Ceylon, isle, Isle of Man, prospect, spicy
«Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.»
«The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.»
«The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that stumbled are girded with strength.»
«With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns»
«The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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blood, bowing, bows, bow out, civilize, civilized, civilizes, civilizing, flesh, fleshed, Flesh and Blood, idols, savage, savaged, stone, take a bow, wood
«You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
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arrows, bowing, bows, bow and arrow, bow out, forth, sent, take a bow
«The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.»
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