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«When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!»
«Fight ever on: this earthly stuff if used God's way will be enough. Face to the firing line o friend fight out life's battle to the end. One soldier, when the fight was red, threw down his broken sword and fled. Another snatched it, won the day, with what his comrade flung away.»
Author: Edwin Markham
(Poet)
| Keywords:
battle line, breaking away, break away, comrade, earthly, earthly life, firing, firing line, fled, flung, red fire, snatched, snatches, snatching, soldier, threw
«Revise and revise and revise - the best thought will come after the printer has snatched away the copy»
«A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there - even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity.»
Author: Robert Doisneau
(Photographer)
| About:
Eternity,
Time
| Keywords:
add up, end to end, hundredth, hundredths, seconds, snatched
«I won a noble fame; But with a sudden frown, The people snatched my crown, And, in the mire, trod down My lofty name»
«I believe a man is born first unto himself--for the happy developing of himself, while the world is a nursery, and the pretty things are to be snatched for, and pleasant things tasted; some people seem to exist thus right to the end. But most are bor»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
developing, nurseries, nursery, Pretty Things, snatched, tasted
«Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
bestows, flux, hazardous, snatched, snatches
«Oh! snatched away in beauty's bloom, / On thee shall press no ponderous tomb.»
«Death is dreadful, but in the first springtime of youth, to be snatched forcibly from the banquet to which the individual has but just sat down is peculiarly appalling»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Death and dying
| Keywords:
appalling, banquet, dreadful, forcibly, peculiarly, snatched, springtime
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