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«He who interrupts the course of his spiritual exercises and prayer is like a man who allows a bird to escape from his hand; he can hardly catch it again.»
«It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.»
Author: Charles Dickens
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countenance, countenanced, countenances, exercises, opens, softened, softening, softens, temper, washes, wash away
«There is nothing in England that exercises a more delightful spell over my imagination than the lingerings of the holiday customs and rural games of former times. They recall the pictures my fancy used to draw in the May morning of life, when as yet I only knew the world through books, and believed it to be all that poets had painted it; and they bring with them the flavour of those honest days of yore, in which, perhaps with equal fallacy, I am apt to think the world was more home-bred, social, and joyous than at present.»
Author: Washington Irving
(Writer)
| About:
Books,
Christmas,
Literature
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as yet, at present, bred, customs, delightful, draw in, exercises, fallacies, fallacy, flavour, holiday, joyous, painted, picture book, recall, rural, yore
«He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.»
«Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Destiny
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as yet, exercises, influence, lays, The Law
«''To give style'' to one's character -- a great and rare art! He exercises it who surveys all that his nature presents in strength and weakness and then moulds it to an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason, and even the weaknesses delight the eye.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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appears, artistic, delight, exercises, Moulds, presents, rare, style, surveyed, surveying, surveys, The Art of Reasoning, The Eye, weakness, weaknesses
«After 'Norwegian Wood', I met Ravi Shankar at a friend's house in London, for dinner. He offered to give me instructions in the basics of the sitar, like how to sit, how to hold it, and the basic exercises. It was the first time I had ever really learned these sort of things.»
Author: George Harrison
| Keywords:
basics, exercises, instructions, lea, Norwegian, Norwegians, Ravi Shankar, Shankar, sitar, The Lea
«The heart of man, which is now allowed to lie fallow, has to be ploughed by spiritual exercises like repetition of GOD's name.»
«He who exercises no forethought but makes light of his opponents is sure to be captured by them.»
«But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor.»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
assail, assailed, assailing, assails, Body The, caution, diseases, equal pay, estimable, exercises, human body, physician, properties, remedies, studied, the human body
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