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«The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention»
Author: Ezra Pound
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Translator)
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«Love bad me welcome;yet my soul drew back.Built of dust and sin.But quick-ey'd love,observing me grow slackFrom my first entrance in,Drew nearer to me,sweetly questioning,If I lack'd anything.»
«And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, How long are ye slack to go to possess the land, which the LORD God of your fathers hath given you? / Give out from among you three men for each tribe: and I will send them, and they shall rise, and go through the land, and describe it according to the inheritance of them; and they shall come again to me.»
«And the men of Gibeon sent unto Joshua to the camp to Gilgal, saying, Slack not thy hand from thy servants; come up to us quickly, and save us, and help us: for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the mountains are gathered together against us.»
«In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, Fear thou not: and to Zion, Let not thine hands be slack.»
«He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.»
«When thou shalt vow a vow unto the LORD thy God, thou shalt not slack to pay it: for the LORD thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee.»
«Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations; / And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.»
«Then she saddled an ass, and said to her servant, Drive, and go forward; slack not thy riding for me, except I bid thee.»
«In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.»
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