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«Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.»
«At a turbulent public meeting once I lost my temper and said some harsh and sarcastic things. The proposal I was supporting was promptly defeated. My father who was there, said nothing, but that night, on my pillow I found a marked passage from Aristotle: Anybody can become angry--that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way -- that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.»
Author: Arthur Gordon
| Keywords:
Aristotle, harsh, marked, passage, pillow, promptly, proposal, proposals, sarcastic, supporting, The Right Time, the right way, turbulent
«God promises a safe landing but not a calm passage.»
Author: Bulgarian Proverb
| About:
God,
Promise
| Keywords:
landing, landings, passage, promised land
«Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?»
«A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.»
«At the narrow passage there is no brother and no friend»
«Footfalls echo in the memory, Down the passage which we did not take, Towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
echo, opened, passage, rose, rose garden, The Rose
«Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?»
«Footfalls echo in the memory/ Down the passage we did not take/ Towards the door we never opened/ Into the rose-garden»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
echo, opened, passage, rose garden, The Rose
«But there is not a passage in the Old Testament that speaks of a person, who, after being crucified, dead, and buried, should rise from the dead, and ascend into heaven»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
ascend, ascends, buried, buries, burying, crucified, crucifying, dead person, old person, Old Testament, passage, speaks, testament, testaments, The Dead
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