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Letter "L" » lashing
«He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it»
«The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.»
Author: Sholem Asch
(Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
lash, lashed, lashes, lashing, physical force
«When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, / I was your son, high on your horse, / My mind a top whipped by the lashes / Of your rhetoric, windy of course.»
«He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the winds. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most me»
«Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another's struggles.»
«If I make the lashes darkAnd the eyes more brightAnd the lips more scarlet,Or ask if all be rightFrom mirror after mirror,No vanity's displayed:I'm looking for the face I hadBefore the world was made.»
«Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.»
«I have no faith in my works. I know time's ocean, its lashing of waves, day by day, will erase them. My faith is in my self.»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
day by day, erase, lashed, lashes, lashing
«What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
| Keywords:
bonds, burst, eager, happily, lashed, lashes, lashing, pokers, quarrels, red hot, sure enough, suspicions, wrapped
«Don't talk to me about Naval tradition! It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
lash, lashed, lashes, lashing, rum, sodomy, talk to me, tradition
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