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Letter "A" » arrow
«Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself»
Author: Joel Hawes
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«A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle»
«And when the lad was come to the place of the arrow which Jonathan had shot, Jonathan cried after the lad, and said, Is not the arrow beyond thee? / And Jonathan cried after the lad, Make speed, haste, stay not. And Jonathan's lad gathered up the arrows, and came to his master.»
«And the LORD shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the LORD God shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the south.»
«But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded.»
«A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.»
«CUPID, n. The so-called god of love. This bastard creation of a barbarous fancy was no doubt inflicted upon mythology for the sins of its deities. Of all unbeautiful and inappropriate conceptions this is the most reasonless and offensive. The notion of symbolizing sexual love by a semisexless babe, and comparing the pains of passion to the wounds of an arrow --of introducing this pudgy homunculus into art grossly to materialize the subtle spirit and suggestion of the work --this is eminently worthy of the age that, giving it birth, laid it on the doorstep of prosperity.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«Four things come not back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life and the neglected opportunity.»
Author: Proverb
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«Deer-hunter, waste not your arrow on the hare»
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