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Letter "S" » sinew
«I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.»
«If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'»
«Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass; / I have even from the beginning declared it to thee; before it came to pass I shewed it thee: lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them.»
«Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.»
«Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
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Revenge
| Keywords:
rolling, Rolling Stone, Rolling Stones, sinew, sinews, The Rolling Stones
«For luck you carried a horse chestnut and a rabbit's foot in your right pocket. The fur had been worn off the rabbit's foot long ago and the bones and the sinews were polished by the wear. The claws scratched in the lining of your pocket and you knew your luck was still there.»
«Endless money forms the sinews of war.»
«Taxes are the sinews of the state»
«In peace there's nothing so becomes a manAs modest stillness and humility;But when the blast of war blows in our ears,Then imitate the action of the tiger:Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;Now set the teeth, and stretch the nostril wide,Hold hard the breath, and bend up every spiritTo his full height!»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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Peace
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«Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
blood, sinew, sinews, stiffen, stiffened, stiffening, summon, summoned, summoning
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