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Letter "P" » pass by
«The things of mortals, mortal are as they: All pass us by, quickly to fade away, If not, we pass by them and they decay»
«Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by. And he said, Neither hath the LORD chosen this.»
«Then he brought me forth into the utter court, and caused me to pass by the four corners of the court; and, behold, in every corner of the court there was a court.»
«O thou that art named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the LORD straitened? are these his doings? do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly? / Even of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye pull off the robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war.»
«Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her? / The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.»
«My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fiber all over me to a delightful sensation about three degrees on this sight of faintness -- if I had teeth of pearl and the breath of lilies I should call it languor -- but as I am I must call it laziness. In this state of effeminacy the fibers of the brain are relaxed in common with the rest of the body, and to such a happy degree that pleasure has no show of enticement and pain no unbearable frown. Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.»
Author: John Keats
(Poet)
| Keywords:
alertness, All Over Me, animal fiber, asleep, by me, countenance, degrees, delightful, effeminacy, eleven, enticement, faintness, fibers, frown, languor, laziness, lilies, no show, pass by, pearl, relaxed, sensation, slumbered, The Animal, unbearable
«Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
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dry, flowing, pass by, spring water, thirsty, tossed
«Pride in their port, defiance in their eye I see the Lords of human kind pass by.»
«There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats; For I am armed so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
armed, by me, Cassius, honesty, idle, pass by, terror, the threat of, Threats
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