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«Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.»
Author: Jane Porter
| Keywords:
bosoms, brightness, converge, converged, converges, converging, kindred, nay, particle, pass through, perfected, ray, redouble, redoubled, redoubling, reflects, strikes, sunbeam
«If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.»
«Man may escape from rope and gun; Nay, some have outliv'd the doctor's pill: Who takes a woman must be undone, That basilisk is sure to kill»
Author: John Gay
(Dramatist, Poet)
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basilisk, escape from, nay, pill, rope, The Doctor, undone
«First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or studied actions. A man's look is the work of years; it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
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cost, countenance, countenanced, countenances, First hand, First Impressions, impressions, infrequently, nay, nays, plausible, professions, rid, rid of, stamped, studied, the Hand, truest, wheedle, wheedled, wheedling
«He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Author, Pilot, Writer)
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abided, abides, abide by, Abide With Me, cherish, cherishing, gone, memory, nay, nays, potent
«Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.»
«Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
disorganization, loose, nay, nays, organization, true to
«If any religion had the chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
England, Europe, Islam, nay, ruling
«It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, nay, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome»
Author: Plutarch
(Author, Biographer)
| Keywords:
difficulty, extremely, nay, nays, objections, oration, orations, produce, raise, troublesome
«For all right judgment of any man or thing it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| About:
Judgement
| Keywords:
all right, nay, pronouncing
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