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Letter "C" » cannon
«The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.»
«The cannon thunders - limbs fly in all directions - one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice - it's Humanity in search of happiness»
«When you can use the lightning it is better than cannon»
«Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
balls, ball up, cannon, cannons, cannon ball, contradict, contradicted, contradicting, morrow, morrows, On The Ball
«Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.»
«Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound; great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
cannon, cannons, debts, loud noise, scarcely
«Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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Reputation
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bearded, bubble, cannon, cannons, jealous, oaths, quarrel
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