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«The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.»
Author: Edwin Way Teale
| Keywords:
plus, spider, spider web, telephone, telephone wire, The Spider, utility, wires
«Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own webs from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch»
«They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
cockatrice, cockatrices, crushed, hatch, spider, spider web, viper, vipers, weave
«There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise: / The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer; / The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks; / The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands; / The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings' palaces.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
ants, bands, exceeding, feeble, folk, four things, houses, palaces, rocks, spider, summer house, The Ants, The Rocks, The Spider
«The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line»
«So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish: / Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web.»
«The means to gain happiness is to throw out from oneself like a spider in all directions an adhesive web of love, and to catch in it all that comes»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
adhesive, directions, spider, throw out, web, webs
«The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.»
Author: Pablo Picasso
(Artist, Painter)
| About:
Art,
Emotion
| Keywords:
all over, paper, passing, receptacle, receptacles, scrap, scraps, shape, spider, spider web, web, webs
«Recite that which has been revealed to you of the Book and keep up prayer; surely prayer keeps (one) away from indecency and evil, and certainly the remembrance of Allah is the greatest, and Allah knows what you do. (The Spider 29.45)»
Author: quran
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
Allah, indecencies, indecency, prayer book, recite, recited, recites, reciting, remembrance, spider, The Spider
«The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.»
Author: William Blake
(Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet)
| About:
Friendship
| Keywords:
bird, spider, The Bird, The Spider, web, webs
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