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Letter "B" » blade
«If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things in nature have a message you understand, Rejoice, for your soul is alive.»
Author: Eleanora Duse
(Actress)
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«Jolly boating weather, / And a hay harvest breeze, / Blade on the feather, / Shade off the trees.»
«There is nothing in the world more beautiful than the forest clothed to its very hollows in snow. It is the still ecstasy of nature, wherein every spray, every blade of grass, every spire of reed, every intricacy of twig, is clad with radiance.»
«Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.»
«Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.»
«RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.Sharp, irresistible by mail or shield, By guard unparried as by flight unstayed, O serviceable Rumor, let me wield Against my enemy no other blade. His be the terror of a foe unseen, His the inutile hand upon the hilt, And mine the deadly tongue, long, slender, keen, Hinting a rumor of some ancient guilt. So shall I slay the wretch without a blow, Spare me to celebrate his overthrow, And nurse my valor for another foe. --Joel Buxter»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity.»
«One, two! One, two! and through and through / The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!/ He left it dead, and with its head / He went galumphing back.»
Author: Lewis Carroll
(Logician, Mathematician, Novelist, Photographer)
| Keywords:
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«In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight»
«It was ascribed to one's past deeds and one's own mental tendencies. It is wrong to cast the blame on others. But, someone pointed out that God was the originator of both joy and grief and that, without His Will, no blade of grass can waver in the wind; Yes; if that Truth be firmly established in the heart, one gets the unique bliss of liberation.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
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