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Letter "F" » fence
«Earth cannot show so brave a sight, / As when a single soul does fence / The batteries of alluring sense / And Heaven views it with delight.»
«Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends»
Author: Czech Proverb
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fence
«He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul»
«Fear is the highest fence.»
«How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.»
Author: Johnny Cash
(Guitarist, Singer, Song Writer)
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chasm, chasms, fence, gulf, gulfs, Gulf of, Heaven and Hell
«Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence.»
«Don't whiz on the electric fence»
«Everyone pushes a falling fence»
«If I thought he'd been valiant and so cunning in fence, I'd have seen him damned ere I'd have challenged him.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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challenged, cunning, damned, fence, valiant
«For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it's still not yet two o?clock on that July afternoon in 1863, the brigades are in position behind the rail fence, the guns are laid and ready in the woods and the furled flags are already loosened to break out and Pickett himself with his long oiled ringlets and his hat in one hand probably and his sword in the other looking up the hill waiting for Longstreet to give the word and it's all in the balance, it hasn't happened yet, it hasn't even begun yet, it not only hasn't begun yet but there is still time for it not to begin against that position and those circumstances which made more men than Garnett and Kemper and Armistead and Wilcox look grave yet it's going to begin, we all know that, we have come too far with too much at stake and that moment doesn't need even a fourteen-year-old boy to think This time. Maybe this time with all this much to lose and all this much to gain: Pennsylvania, Maryland, the world, the golden dome of Washington itself to crown with desperate and unbelievable victory the desperate gamble, the cast made two years ago.... William Faulkner, Intruder In The Dust»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
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