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Letter "H" » hive
«Mos Eisley spaceport. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.»
«Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hives»
Author: Hippolyte Taine
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
cocoon, cocoons, hive, hives, philosophies, poems, silkworm
«You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
| About:
Death and dying
| Keywords:
bees, glass, hive, hives, The Mirror
«A village is a hive of glass, where nothing unobserved can pass»
«For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every corner of nature; the difference is that instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.»
Author: Jonathan Swift
(Author, Satirist)
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chosen, corner, dirt, furnishing, furnishings, have got, hive, hives, honey, noblest, poison, ranging, search and, sweetness, sweetness and light, wax, waxes, waxing
«Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as a legislature, Sleep is as forward as hives or goiters, And where it is least desired, it loiters.»
«No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.»
«Let come what will, I mean to bear it out, And either live with glorious victorie, Or die with fame renown'd for chivalrie: He is not worthy of the honey-comb, That shuns the hives because the bees have stings»
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