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«The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.»
«When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.»
Author: Alexander Graham Bell
(Educator, Inventor)
| About:
Opportunity,
Regret
| Keywords:
closed-door, closed, closes, opened, opens, regretfully
«When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.»
Author: Bishop Desmond Tutu
(Novelist, Spiritual leader)
| About:
Conquest,
Missionaries,
Religion
| Keywords:
Africa, bible, came, closed, land, missionaries, opened, Open Your Eyes, pray, The Bible, The Land
«There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.»
«When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.»
Author: Helen Keller
(Author, Educator)
| About:
Happiness
| Keywords:
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«The watchful mother tarries nigh, though sleep has closed her infants eyes.»
Author: John Keble
(Poet, Priest, Theologian)
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closed, infants, nigh, tarries, tarrying, watchful
«When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open.»
«The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.»
Author: Denis Diderot
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adult, approaches, closed, infant, old man, running back, The old man
«You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.»
«The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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