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Letter "L" » lightens
«I still say a church steeple with a lightening rod on top shows a lack of confidence.»
«Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.»
Author: Grenville Kleiser
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asset, attracts, burdens, contentment, depression, lightens, route, serenity
«A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.»
Author: James Dickey
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Poetry
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«More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.»
Author: Thomas Traherne
(Mystic, Poet)
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diminish, increases, lighten, lightened, lightening, lightens, lighten up
«No one is useless in the world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else.»
«Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
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ember, embers, fires, lightened, lightening, lightens, lighten up, spiritless, stirred, tasks
«No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another»
«No loss by flood and lightening, no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of so many noble lives and impulses as those which his intolerance has destroyed»
Author: Helen Keller
(Author, Educator)
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cities, deprived, destroyed, destruction, flood, Forces of Nature, Force of Nature, hostile, impulses, intolerance, lightened, lightening, lightens, lighten up, loss, noble, temples
«Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties.»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Friendship
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anxieties, brighter, lightened, lightening, lightens, lighten up, prosperity, sharing
«Health is the working man's fortune, and he ought to watch over it more than the capitalist over his largest investments. Health lightens the efforts of body and mind. It enables a man to crowd much work into a narrow compass. Without it, little can be earned, and that little by slow, exhausting toil.»
Author: William Ellery Channing
(Author, Clergyman)
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capitalist, investments, largest, lightens, working man
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