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Letter "F" » fleets
«Every day has been so short, every hour so fleeting, every minute so filled with the life I love that time for me has fled on too swift a wing.»
«Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.»
Author: Christopher Morley
| About:
Beauty,
Grief,
Pain
| Keywords:
fleeting, fleets, plain, souvenir, Souvenirs, The Fleet, The Lonely, The Visitors, visitor
«So, often in the courseOf life's few fleeting years,A single pleasure costsThe soul a thousand tears.»
Author: Francis William Bourdillon
| Keywords:
a thousand, costs, course, fleeting, fleets, The Fleet
«To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.»
Author: Henri Cartier-Bresson
(Photographer)
| Keywords:
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«Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquility of a lovely sunset.»
Author: Ann Landers
(Advice columnist)
| Keywords:
brilliance, comet, Comets, fleeting, fleets, lovelier, lovely, marriage, pleasures, sensual, sunset, sunsets, The Fleet, tranquility
«Child of the pure, unclouded brow And dreaming eyes of wonder! Though time be fleet and I and thou Are half a life asunder, Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy tale»
Author: Lewis Carroll
(Logician, Mathematician, Novelist, Photographer)
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asunder, brow, brows, dreaming, fairy, fairy tale, fleet, fleetest, fleets, hail, hailed, hailing, hails, Half a Life, half time, surely, tale, The Brow, The Fleet, unclouded
«Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean - roll! / Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; / Man marks the earth with ruin - his control / Stops with the shore.»
Author: Lord Byron
| Keywords:
dark blue, Deep Blue, Deep ocean, fleets, Marks, roll-on, roll, shore, sweep, sweep over, ten thousand
«Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
| About:
Glory
| Keywords:
fleeting, fleets, glory, obscurities, obscurity, The Fleet
«The wise skeptic does not teach doubt but how to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting.»
«For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
air power, fleets, military power, military rank
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