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Letter "G" » gloom
«I am your friend and my love for you goes deep. There is nothing I can give you which you have not got, But there is much, very much, that, while I cannot give it, you can take. No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in today. Take heaven! No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this present little instant. Take peace! The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within our reach, is joy.»
Author: Fra Giovanni Giocondo
(Archeologist, Architect, Engineer)
| About:
Friendship
| Keywords:
behind, come to, deep, gloom, goes, got, go deep, have-not, hearts, heaven, hidden, instant, in this, joy, less than nothing, lies, Nothing yet, peace, peace and love, present, reach, rest, shadow, There Is Nothing, The future, very much, yet
«Melancholy is at the bottom of everything, just as at the end of all rivers is the sea. Can it be otherwise in a world where nothing lasts, where all that we have loved or shall love must die? Is death, then, the secret of life? The gloom of an eternal mourning enwraps, more or less closely, every serious and thoughtful soul, as night enwraps the universe.»
Author: Henri Frederic Amiel
| Keywords:
at the bottom, closely, enwrapped, Everything or Nothing, gloom, lasts, more or less, mourning, rivers, thoughtful
«Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| About:
Cheerfulness
| Keywords:
cheerfulness, daylight, daylights, fills, flash, glitters, gloom, in the mind, lightning, mirth, perpetual, serenity, steady
«Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealously, and envy. Guard your fragile life carefully. Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces.»
Author: Og Mandino
(Essayist, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
allow, Brains, business, business life, carefully, cast, cast about, cast on, child, Child of God, combating, combats, days, defeat, denial, denials, entire, envy, envying, external, externals, fault, finding, flower, flower child, flower power, foolish, forces, fragile, gloom, guard, hate, jealously, life force, menial, No self, on guard, on your guard, pall, palls, parade, paraded, parading, permit, pieces, precious, pull, rain, required, sacrificed, self-denial, set, set up, shape, talent, thus, wasted, wasting time
«SCARABEE, n. The same as scarabaeus.He fell by his own hand Beneath the great oak tree. He'd traveled in a foreign land. He tried to make her understand The dance that's called the Saraband, But he called it Scarabee. He had called it so through an afternoon, And she, the light of his harem if so might be, Had smiled and said naught. O the body was fair to see, All frosted there in the shine o' the moon -- Dead for a Scarabee And a recollection that came too late. O Fate! They buried him where he lay, He sleeps awaiting the Day, In state, And two Possible Puns, moon-eyed and wan, Gloom over the grave and then move on. Dead for a Scarabee! --Fernando Tapple»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
afternoon, awaiting, dead tree, eyed, Fernando, frosted, gloom, harem, land of the dead, move on, naught, oak, oak tree, Puns, recollection, saraband, scarabaeus, sleeps, sleep late, smiled, traveled, WAN
«O soft embalmer of the still midnight, / Shutting, with careful fingers and benign / Our gloom-pleased eyes.»
«Life is languished away in the gloom of anxiety, and consumed in collecting resolutions which the next morning dissipates; in forming purposes which we scarcely hope to keep, and reconciling ourselves to our own cowardice by excuses which, while we»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
anxiety, collecting, consumed, cowardice, dissipate, dissipated, dissipates, dissipating, excuses, forming, gloom, languished, languishes, languishing, purposes, reconciles, reconciling, resolutions, scarcely
«My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.»
«Lost in a gloom of uninspired research.»
«Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.»
Author: Zig Ziglar
(Author, Speaker)
| Keywords:
bad person, convince, doom, dooms, gloom, hang, hang around, lifting, long shot, optimistic, otherwise, precious, pull, pull down, shoot down, shot, surround, Too Short
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