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Letter "L" » longed
«Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today, and longed for them tomorrow»
Author: Abba Eban
(Minister)
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Government
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longed-for, longed, proposal, proposals, rejected, time and again
«I opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for thy commandments.»
«No life that breathes with human breath has ever truly longed for death»
«Somebody's sorrow is making me weep:I know not her name, but I echo her cry,For the dearly bought baby she longed so to keep,The baby that rode to its long-lasting sleepIn the little white hearse that went rumbling by.»
Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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dearly, echo, hearse, last but not least, long-lasting, longed, rode, rumble, rumbles, rumbling, rumblings
«To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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As god, desperate, executive, existence of God, experiment, helpless, lay hands on, longed, longing, organ, realization, regard, salvation, sole, teaching, the existence of God
«With pleasure drugged, he almost longed for woe»
«My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire. I longed to kindle one! It seemed not so wild a dream . . .»
«Think of the Lord! No one knows this secret, of when the Messenger of Death will seize you and take you away. All your weeping and wailing then is false. In an instant, you become a stranger. You obtain exactly what you have longed for. Says Nanak, in the fourth watch of the night, O mortal, the Grim Reaper has harvested your field.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
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grim, grim reaper, harvested, longed-for, longed, reaper, reapers, The Grim Reaper, wailing
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