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Letter "A" » afloat
«You cannot sink someone else's end of the boat and still keep your own afloat.»
«I've often been adrift, but I have always stayed afloat»
«There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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«That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world.»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
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afloat, conquerors, disturbed, equilibrium, liberties, mischief, occasioned, political liberty, recall, ruthless, welfare
«I don't like your miserable lonely single ''front name.'' It is so limited, so meager; it has no versatility; it is weighted down with the sense of responsibility; it is worn threadbare with much use; it is as bad as having only one jacket and one hat; it is like having only one relation, one blood relation, in the world. Never set a child afloat on the flat sea of life with only one sail to catch the wind.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
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afloat, bad blood, bad hat, blood relation, flat, jacket, meager, One Blood, sense of responsibility, threadbare, versatility, wear down, weighted, worn
«What was he doing, the great god Pan, / Down in the reeds by the river? / Spreading ruin and scattering ban, / Splashing and paddling with hoofs of a goat, / And breaking the golden lilies afloat / With the dragon-fly on the river.»
«Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.»
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