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«Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebullience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right»
Author: Donald Culross Peattie
| About:
Beauty
| Keywords:
delightful, ebullience, excrescence, in its own right, own right, random, sheer, superabundance
«Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.»
Author: James Russell Lowell
(Critic, Diplomat, Editor, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Death and dying
| Keywords:
delightful, fevers, waking, weary
«Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.»
Author: Louisa May Alcott
(Author)
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delightful, each day, employing, old age, pleasant, regrets, regular, regulars
«Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.»
«Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us»
Author: Martin Luther
(Priest, Scholar)
| About:
God,
Music,
Soul
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Art of, Beautiful Music, calm, calmed, calmer, calmest, calming, calms, delightful, given, magnificent, presents, Prophets, the art, The Prophets
«Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies»
Author: John Milton
(Historian, Poet, Scholar)
| Keywords:
beholding, countenance, delightful, studies, The Quiet
«For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than agriculture»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
agriculture, bred, delightful, gainful, pleasing, professions, well-bred
«And, by the way, one of the most delightful things I find in America is meeting a people without prejudice -- everywhere open to the truth.»
«Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarize them. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
canonize, canonized, delightful, detestable, edition, editions, formerly, Great Books, vulgarize, vulgarized
«Composition is, for the most part, an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
amusements, composition, delightful, diligence, dragged, for the most part, resolution, steady
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