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Letter "N" » numberless
«Because each of those numberless non-participants was doubtless concerned with raising in the flatness of his own unsung existence his own personal stage, his own props and scenery - for there are very few of us who can be, for any length of time, me»
Author: Graham Swift
| Keywords:
doubtless, flatness, numberless, participant, participants, propped, props, the participants, unsung
«It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.»
Author: Robert Francis Kennedy
| About:
Courage,
History,
Injustice,
Inspiration,
Mankind
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«Beauty is an all-pervading presence. It unfolds to the numberless flowers of the Spring; it waves in the branches of the trees and in the green blades of grass; it haunts the depths of the earth and the sea, and gleams out in the hues of the shell and the precious stone. And not only these minute objects, but the ocean, the mountains, the clouds, the heavens, the stars, the rising and the setting sun all overflow with beauty. The universe is its temple; and those people who are alive to it can not lift their eyes without feeling themselves encompassed with it on every side.»
Author: William Ellery Channing
(Author, Clergyman)
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«At the round earth's imagined corners, blow / Your trumpets, Angels, and arise, arise / From death, you numberless infinities / Of souls.»
Author: John Donne
| Keywords:
Angel of death, corners, death angel, imagined, Infinities, numberless, trumpets
«Thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, / In some melodious plot / of beechen green, and shadows numberless, / Singest of summer in full-throated ease.»
Author: John Keats
(Poet)
| Keywords:
beechen, dryad, green light, in full, melodious, numberless, plot, throated, winged
«It is well known, that many things appear plausible in speculation, which can never be reduced to practice; and that of the numberless projects that have flattered mankind with theoretical speciousness, few have served any other purpose than to show»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
flattered, numberless, plausible, speciousness, speculation, theoretical, well known
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