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«Are bombs the only way of setting fire to the spirit of a people? Is the human will as inert as the past two world-wide wars would indicate?»
«But darkness makes me fumble For a key to a door Wide open»
«I'll do my dreaming with my eyes wide open, and I'll do my looking back with my eyes closed»
«Dressed in the lion's skin, the ass spread terror far and wide»
Author: Jean de La Fontaine
(Poet)
| Keywords:
ass, dressed, far and wide, lion, skin, spread, terror, wide
«Be on the alert, like the red ant that moves with its claws wide open. Uganda»
«By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart»
«Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Children,
Hypocrisy
| Keywords:
cleverest, deceive, disguised, hypocrisies, hypocrisy, ingeniously, penetrating, recognizes, revolted, revolts, wide-awake, wide
«Alone, alone, all all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never a saint took pity on My soul in agony»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Soul
| Keywords:
agony, saint, The Agony and, took, wide
«Be patient, for the world is broad and wide.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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broad, broadest, broads, patient, patient of, wide, widest
«In peace there's nothing so becomes a manAs modest stillness and humility;But when the blast of war blows in our ears,Then imitate the action of the tiger:Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;Now set the teeth, and stretch the nostril wide,Hold hard the breath, and bend up every spiritTo his full height!»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Peace
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blast, blasted, blasting, blows, ears, Ha Ha Ha, humility, imitate, modest, nostril, sinew, sinews, stiffen, stiffened, stiffening, stillness, stretch, summon, summoned, summoning, teeth, the Action, The Tiger, tiger, wide
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