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Letter "A" » About us
«All parents believe their children can do the impossible. They thought it the minute we were born, and no matter how hard we've tried to prove them wrong, they all think it about us now. And the really annoying thing is, they're probably right.»
«A very slight change in our habits is sufficient to destroy our sense of our daily reality, and the reality of the world about us; the moment we pass out of our habits we lose all sense of permanency and routine»
Author: George Moore
(Philosopher)
| About:
Change,
Habit,
Reality,
Senses
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About us, pass out, permanency, routine, slight
«Conscience - the only incorruptible thing about us»
Author: Henry Fielding
(Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Conscience
| Keywords:
About us, incorruptible
«Here of a Sunday morning / My love and I would lie, / And see the coloured counties, / And hear the larks so high / About us in the sky.»
«Beauty is all about us, but how may are blind! They look at the wonder of this earth and seem to see nothing. People move hectically but give little thought to where they are going. They seek excitement ... as if they were lost and desperate.»
Author: Pablo Casals
(Cellist, Conductor)
| About:
Beauty
| Keywords:
About us, desperate, excitement, hectically
«And Moab said unto the elders of Midian, Now shall this company lick up all that are round about us, as the ox licketh up the grass of the field. And Balak the son of Zippor was king of the Moabites at that time.»
«And it came to pass, that when all our enemies heard thereof, and all the heathen that were about us saw these things, they were much cast down in their own eyes: for they perceived that this work was wrought of our God.»
«All the means of action - the shapeless masses - the materials - lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.''»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
| Keywords:
About us, Action The, celestial, crystal, crystals, crystal clear, Flint, flints, masses, materials, shapeless, the Crystal, transparent
«But trailing clouds of glory do we come,From God, who is our home:Heaven lies about us in our infancy!»
«Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy»
Author: William Wordsworth
(Poet)
| About:
Heaven
| Keywords:
About us, infancy, prison house, shades of, The Prison
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