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«Once you have heard the lark, known the swish of feet through hill-top grass and smelt the earth made ready for the seed, you are never again going to be fully happy about the cities and towns that man carries like a crippling weight upon his back.»
Author: Gwyn Thomas
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«They carry back bright to the coiner the mintage of man, / The lads that will die in their glory and never be old.»
Author: A. E. Housman
(Poet, Scholar)
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carry back, coiner, Die in, lads, mintage, Old Glory
«Each of us has the right and the responsibility to asses the road which lie ahead and those over which we have traveled, and if the feature road looms ominous or unpromising, and the road back uninviting-inviting, then we need to gather our resolve and carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that one as well.»
Author: Maya Angelou
(Poet)
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«Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself. When you are carried away with your worries, fears, cravings, anger, and desire, you run away from yourself and you lose yourself. The practice is always to go back to oneself.»
Author: Thich Nhat Hanh
(Activist, Monk, Writer)
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carried, carry back, cravings, go back, in a way, running back, run away, The Practice, worries
«And the king said unto Zadok, Carry back the ark of God into the city: if I shall find favour in the eyes of the LORD, he will bring me again, and shew me both it, and his habitation: / But if he thus say, I have no delight in thee; behold, here am I, let him do to me as seemeth good unto him.»
«INJUSTICE, n. A burden which of all those that we load upon others and carry ourselves is lightest in the hands and heaviest upon the back.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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Injustice
| Keywords:
carry back, heaviest, lightest, load
«I would rather have a big burden and a strong back, than a weak back and a caddy to carry life's luggage»
Author: Elbert Hubbard
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back, big, burden, burdening, caddy, carry, carrying out, carry back, carry over, carry through, luggage, rather, strong, weak
«I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means -- except by getting off his back.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
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and others, carry back, carry off, choking, sit back, sorry for
«One wants to be an honest man; one is so, one works hard; but still one cannot make both ends meet; on must give up the work, there is no chance of carrying it out without spending more on it than one gets back for it; one gets a feeling of shortcomi»
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