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«A wet sheet and a flowing sea, / A wind that follows fast / And fills the white and rustling sail / And bends the gallant mast.»
«A jug fills drop by drop.»
«All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, but though I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine.»
«Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.»
«For oft, when on my couch I lieIn vacant or in pensive mood,They flash upon that inward eyeWhich is the bliss of solitude;And then my heart with pleasure fills,And dances with the daffodils.»
«Every day in a life fills the whole life with expectations and memory.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| About:
Life
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every day, expectations, fills, memory
«A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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Teachers and teaching
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accomplishes, arouse, arousing, classified, classify, fills, for one, Good poem, natural action, objects, poem, rowed, rows
«I forget what killed it. I think it was her proposing to sacrifice the whole world for me. That is always a dreadful moment. It fills one with the terror of eternity.»
«If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.»
«Grief fills the room up of my absent child, lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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absent, Down With Me, fills, repeats, up and down, walk-up, walks
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