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Letter "P" » pebble
«There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
| About:
Chance,
Emotion,
Heart
| Keywords:
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«Memory: a child walking along a seashore. You never can tell what small pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured things.»
«Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.»
«The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
affected, movement, ocean, pebble, pebbled
«Where does a wise man kick a pebble? On the beach. Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
beach, leaf, On the Beach, pebble
«The pebble in the brook secretly thinks itself a precious stone»
«Nor sword nor spear the stripling took, / But chose a pebble from the brook.»
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