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«On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light»
Author: Freya Stark
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abstract, abstract art, doorway, doorways, gently, noticed, on the whole, pale, regions, scarcely, truthful
«It was no more than a black slash in the ground, a poignant contrast to the lofty white marble and limestone of this monumental city. It was cut into a gently rising slope of grass An al fresco mortuary.»
Author: Nelson DeMille
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contrast, cut into, fresco, gently, lofty, monumental, mortuary, poignant, rising slope, slash, slashed, slashes, slope, slopes
«It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter.»
«One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.»
Author: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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amended, amending, disclosure, disclosures, display, evidences, excel, gently, surest
«Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
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Laughter
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bewitch, bewitched, bewitching, gently, hovers, sobriety, The Twilight, twilight
«I have been able to follow my death step by step and now my life goes gently to its end.»
Author: Pope John XXIII
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gently
«Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you -- gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.»
Author: Tennessee Williams
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Back to, Beautiful Life, gently, give back, give up, grace, hold back, such, take hold, take hold of, taking hold, weak, with love
«Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.»
«Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.»
«I will be correspondent to command,And do my spiriting gently.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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command, correspondent, correspondents, gently, spiriting
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