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Letter "P" » profusion
«The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars; it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, images powerful enough to deny our nothingness»
«Underneath an apple-treeSat a maiden and her lover;And the thoughts within her heYearned, in silence, to discover.Round them danced the sunbeams bright,Green the grass-lawn stretched before themWhile the apple blossoms whiteHung in rich profusion o'er them.»
Author: Will Carleton
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apple, apple tree, blossoms, danced, Green Grass, hung, lawn, maiden, profusion, Sat, stretched, sunbeams, The Apple, underneath, yearned
«The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness»
Author: Andre Malraux
(Historian, Novelist, Statesman)
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at random, flung, nothingness, profusion, random
«A profusion of pink roses being ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring.»
Author: William Carlos Williams
(Poet)
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enduring, gentleness, pink, profusion, ragged, rose pink, The Pink
«Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
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elegance, magnificence, profusion, splendor
«A woman of fortune being used the handling of money, spends it judiciously; but a woman who gets the command of money for the first time upon her marriage, has such a gust in spending it, that she throws it away with great profusion»
«Service springs out of LOVE and it scatters LOVE in profusion.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
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Out of Love, profusion, scattering, scatters, springs
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