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Letter "T" » toss
«You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside; You are the person who makes up your mind. Whether you'll lead or will linger behind. Whether you'll try for the goal that's afar. Or just be contented to stay where you are.»
«There it stands, with a toss of curls and a flounce of skirts, a Carmen among the cities. the last of the Middle Eastern fleshpots. a junction of intrigue and speculation.»
Author: Jan Morris
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Carmen, curls, flounce, flounces, intrigue, junction, skirts, speculation, toss
«Now the great winds shoreward blow, / Now the salt tides seaward flow; / Now the wild white horses play, / Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.»
Author: Matthew Arnold
(Critic, Poet)
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chafe, chafing, Great Salt, Great White, salt, seaward, spray, The Wild, tides, toss, toss in, white horse
«Matrons, who toss the cup and see The grounds of fate in grounds of tea»
«This delivering of knowledge in distinct and disjointed aphorisms doth leave the wit of man more free to turn and toss, and to make use of that which is so delivered to more several purposes and applications»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Knowledge
| Keywords:
aphorisms, applications, disjointed, distinct, toss
«Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafairing soul, if either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
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alone, broken, Burns, confining, destruction, drift, drifted, drifts, either, flame, flamed, force, held, In Flames, mid, or else, passion, rudder, ruling, rulings, sails, seas, sea a, standstill, toss, tosses, tossing, toss in, toss out, Toss Up, unattended
«The school system, custodian of print culture, has no place for the rugged individual. It is, indeed, the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
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custodian, custodians, homogenized, homogenizing, hopper, processing, school system, The school, toss
«No, one should toss out these lazy rogues by the seat of their pants»
«Nature, to each allots his proper Sphere, But, that forsaken, we like Comets err: Toss'd thro' the Void, by some rude Shock we're broke, And all our boasted Fire is lost in Smoke»
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