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Letter "R" » refuge
«There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Animals
| Keywords:
cats, miseries, refuge
«There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession»
Author: Daniel Webster
(Orator, Senator, Statesman)
| About:
Confession
| Keywords:
confession, refuge, The Confession
«The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.»
Author: Leonard Cohen
(Novelist, Poet, Singer, Song Writer)
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insomniac, insomniacs, refuge, sleeping, superiority
«The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence. (2 Samuel 22:3)»
«The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge.»
«Therefore, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be a refuge to yourselves. Hold fast to Truth as a lamp; hold fast to the truth as a refuge. Look not for a refuge in anyone beside yourselves. And those, who shall be a lamp unto themselves, shall betake themselves to no external refuge, but holding fast to the Truth as their lamp, and holding fast to the Truth as their refuge, they shall reach the topmost height.»
«The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.»
Author: Ernest Hemingway
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currencies, currency, economic, inflation, mismanage, mismanaged, nation, opportunist, opportunists, panacea, permanent, political, prosperity, refuge, ruin, temporary, The Second
«The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a great refuge from home life»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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advantage, hotel, hotels, Hotel I, refuge, The Great
«Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Silence
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balm, chagrin, disappointment, discourses, discoursing, dull, refuge, satiety, sequel, The Discourses, universal, welcome
«Simple pleasures are always the last refuge of the complex»
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