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«Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.»
«Fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by clothes easy to copy, or by the shortening or lengthening of a skirt.»
Author: Elsa Schiaparelli
(Fashion designer)
| About:
Fashion
| Keywords:
copy, evening clothes, lengthen, lengthened, lengthening, lengthens, shortening, shortens, skirt, skirted, trends
«Then awake! the heavens look bright, my dear; / 'Tis never too late for delight, my dear;/ And the best of all ways / To lengthen our days / Is to steal a few hours from the night, my dear!»
Author: Thomas More
(Chancellor, Humanist, Statesman)
| Keywords:
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«A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of impertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noon-tide of our prosperity. He is known by his knock.»
Author: Charles Lamb
(Critic, Essayist, Poet)
| Keywords:
approximation, correspondence, Correspondences, haunting, impertinent, irrelevant, lengthen, lengthened, lengthening, lengthens, preposterous
«How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends!»
«All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
History
| Keywords:
lengthen, lengthened, lengthening, lengthens
«Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
lengthened, lengthening, lengthens, The Organization
«Ah, gentle dames! It gars me greet / To think how mony counsels sweet, / How mony lengthen'd sage advices, / The husband frae the wife despises!»
Author: Robert Burns
(Poet)
| Keywords:
counsels, dames, greet, lengthen, lengthened, lengthening, sage
«Frame thy mind to mirth and merriment, which bars a thousand harms, and lengthens life»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
bars, frame, harms, lengthen, lengthened, lengthening, lengthens, merriment, mirth
«Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
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