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Letter "L" » look on
«I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.»
Author: John Ashbery
| Keywords:
closed, closing time, head off, In My Head, length, look on, occasionally, snip, snipping, snip off, work off
«I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
fearing, innovation, look on, toilsome
«I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiousity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.»
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
(Diplomat, First Lady, Humanitarian)
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Age of Reason, content, fireside, firesides, keep back, kept, look on, meant
«I look on all the world as my parish; thus far I mean, that, in whatever part of it I am, I judge it meet, right, and my bounden duty, to declare unto all that are willing to hear, the glad tidings of salvation»
Author: John Wesley
(Evangelist)
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bounden, declare, glad, look on, parish, salvation, thus far, tidings
«I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.»
Author: Walt Disney
(Producer)
| About:
Life,
Optimism
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complex, look on, optimistic, realistic
«Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.»
«Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.»
«Men, quite ordinary men, will compel children to look on while their mothers are raped. In pursuit of political aims men will submit their opponents to long years of unspeakable anguish»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
aims, anguish, compel, look on, opponents, raped, submit, unspeakable
«I could not, at any age, be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.»
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
(Diplomat, First Lady, Humanitarian)
| Keywords:
corner, fireside, firesides, look on
«I cannot but remember such things were,That were most precious to me. Did heaven look on,And would not take their part?»
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