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Letter "D" » dim
«Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities?»
«Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.»
Author: Maurice Chevalier
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«I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't.»
Author: Philip Roth
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«I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more /the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort /to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires /and expires, too soon, too soon /before life itself.»
Author: Joseph Conrad
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Back to Earth, come back, Death itself, deceitful, dim, dimmed, dims, every year, expire, expires, expiring, glow, handful, heat, lured, lures, luring, outlast, outlasted, outlasting, outlasts, perils, The Glow, too soon, triumphant
«I would have rummaged, ransacked at the word; Those old odd corners of an empty heart; For remnants of dim love the long disused, And dusty crumbling of romance!»
«In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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background, backgrounds, Background and, dim, dimmed, dimming, dims, in the background, ought, somehow, start
«How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street.»
«His neighbor is a tooth-drawer. That bag at his girdle is full of the teeth that he drew at Winchester fair. I warrant that there are more sound ones than sorry, for he is quick at his work and a trifle dim in the eye.»
«Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow»
«Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.»
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