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Letter "I" » islands
«More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure.»
Author: Cecil Beaton
(Fashion designer, Photographer)
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Against A, apricot, azure, Gold and Silver, islands, shades, The Peninsula, turquoise, varied
«Metaphorically these essays move as a quiet but observant coast-guard cutter among the rocks and islands up and down the littoral of our life.»
«Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen»
«?The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.?»
«Listen, lad. I built this kingdom up from nothing. When I started here, all there was was swamp. Other kings said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show 'em. It sank into the swamp. So, I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third one. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one... stayed up! And that's what you're gonna get, lad: the strongest castle in these islands.»
«Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow»
«Let them give glory unto the LORD, and declare his praise in the islands.»
«Much have I traveled in the realms of gold,/ And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; / Round many western islands have I been / Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold.»
«On Hawaii: The loveliest fleet of islands that lies anchored in any ocean»
«Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest, which co-mingle their roots in the darkness underground.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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co, cos, forest, islands, mingle, mingling, roots, the darkness, underground
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