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Letter "D" » dreary
«There is nothing in the world more dreary than a prayer that attempts to inform God of anything at all.»
Author: Edward N. West
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at all, dreariest, dreary, inform, informing, informs, prayer, There Is Nothing
«Nobody needs a smile so much as the one who has none to give. So get used to smiling heart-warming smiles, and you will spread sunshine in a sometimes dreary world.»
«Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary...»
«OBLIVION, n. The state or condition in which the wicked cease from struggling and the dreary are at rest. Fame's eternal dumping ground. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory without an alarm clock.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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alarmed, alarming, ambitious, at rest, authors, betters, clock, dormitory, dreariest, dreary, dumped, dumping, dumps, envy, eternal rest, fame, Higher Ground, High Hopes, meeting place, oblivion, Pride and, storage, struggling, The Alarm, The State, wicked
«Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls; Where words come out from the depth of truth; Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection; Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way in the dreary desert sand of dead habit; Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever widening thought and action.... into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake.»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
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domestic, dreary, fragments, My Country, narrow mind, stream, stretches, tireless, widen, widened, widens, without fear
«What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
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Life,
Motives
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dreary, motive
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