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Letter "C" » chisel in
«A disease and its treatment can be a series of humiliations, a chisel for humility»
«You may chisel a boy into shape, as you would a rock, or hammer him into it, if he be of a better kind, as you would a piece of bronze. But you cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does.»
Author: John Ruskin
(Critic, Writer)
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bronze, bronzed, chisel, chisels, chisel in, good shape, hammer
«It is well with me when only when I have a chisel in my hand»
«PAINTING, n. The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic. Formerly, painting and sculpture were combined in the same work: the ancients painted their statues. The only present alliance between the two arts is that the modern painter chisels his patrons.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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alliance, ancients, art critic, chisels, chisel in, combined, exposing, formerly, patrons, protecting, surfaces
«War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| About:
War
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carve, carves, chisel, chisels, chisel in, poor, war
«The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
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asserts, carving, carvings, chisels, chisel in, loudly, peaceful, prophetic, tomorrows
«Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.»
Author: Samuel Butler
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Life
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chisel, chisels, chisel in, mold, quarries, quarry, The Quarry
«It is not permitted to a man who takes up pen or chisel, to seek originality, for passion is his only business, and he cannot but mould or sing after a new fashion because no disaster is like another.»
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