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«The mind, that ocean where each kind / Does straight its own resemblance find; / Yet it creates, transcending these, / Far other worlds, and other seas, / Annihilating all that's made / To a green thought in a green shade.»
Author: Andrew Marvell
(Poet, Politician, Satirist)
| Keywords:
annihilate, annihilates, annihilating, Other Worlds, resemblance, seas, sea green, shade, transcending, worlds
«The shade hugs my heart.»
«One generation plants the trees, and another gets the shade»
Author: Chinese Proverbs
| Keywords:
generation, gets, one generation, plants, shade, shaded, shading, trees
«The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.»
«Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made By singing - 'Oh how beautiful!' and sitting in the shade, While better men than we go out and start their working lives At grubbing weeds from gravel paths with broken dinner knives»
«The tree can teach you forbearance and tolerance. It offers shade to all, irrespective of age, sex or religion, nationality or status. It helps with fruit and shade even to the foe who lays his axe on its trunk! The dog can teach you a lesson in Faith, Self-less service and the process of Dedication.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
axe, dedication, foe, forbearance, irrespective, lays, offers, of age, self help, self taught, shade, status, The Dog, tolerance, tree trunk, trunk, trunks
«To many a youth and many a maid, / Dancing in the chequered shade.»
«O woman!- In our hours of ease, uncertain, coy, and hard to please, and variable as the shade, by the light quivering aspen made; when pain and anguish wring the brow, a ministering angel thou»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
anguish, aspen, brow, coy, hard to please, ministering, quivering, quivers, shade, The Brow, uncertain, variable, variables, wring
«Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with unceasingly, for it is a fateful part of human destiny that it is condemned to wage perpetual war against ghosts. A shade is not easily taken by the throat and destroyed.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
armed, bigotry, claw, clawing, cling, condemned, fateful, ghosts, grapple, grappled, grappling, perpetual, prejudice, shade, shades, superstition, tenaciously, The Throat, throat, tooth, unceasingly
«O for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more»
Author: William Cowper
(Poet)
| Keywords:
boundless, contiguity, lodge, lodges, lodge in, lodging, rumour, shade, unsuccessful, wilderness
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