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Letter "B" » brow
«Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth.»
«One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to consider responsibilities, and to ponder business; on a base of steady satisfaction rise certain grave cares, and we contain ourselves, and brood over our bliss with a solemn brow.»
«If you set your heart upon philosophy, you must straightway prepare yourself to be laughed at and mocked by many who will say Behold a philosopher arisen among us! or How came you by that brow of scorn? But do you cherish no scorn, but hold to those things which seem to you the best, as one set by God in that place. Remember too, that if you abide in those ways, those who first mocked you, the same shall afterwards reverence you; but if you yield to them, you will be laughed at twice as much as before.»
Author: Epictetus
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«May the raindrops fall lightly on your brow. May the soft winds freshen your spirit. May the sunshine brighten your heart. May the burdens of the day rest lightly upon you, and may God enfold you in the mantle of His love.»
«I see a lilly on thy brow, / With anguish moist and fever dew; / And on thy cheek a fading rose / Fast withereth too. I met a lady in the meads / Full beautiful, a faery's child; / Her hair was long, her foot was light, / And her eyes were wild.»
«Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
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Justice
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«Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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brow, brows, The Brow, The Word, written, written word
«I see before me the Gladiator lie: / He leans upon his hand - his manly brow / Consents to death, but conquers agony.»
Author: Lord Byron
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agony, brow, brows, conquers, consents, gladiator, gladiators, lay hands on, leans, leant, Lean on Me, manlier, manly, The Agony and, The Brow
«I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things, and they didn't spring full-bloom from my brow -- they came from the heart of a great nation.»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
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bloom, brow, communicated, communicator, communicators, from the heart
«O woman!- In our hours of ease, uncertain, coy, and hard to please, and variable as the shade, by the light quivering aspen made; when pain and anguish wring the brow, a ministering angel thou»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
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anguish, aspen, brow, coy, hard to please, ministering, quivering, quivers, shade, The Brow, uncertain, variable, variables, wring
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