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Letter "S" » sparrow
«Happy is the person who not only sings, but feels God's eye is on the sparrow, and knows He watches over me. To be simply ensconced in God is true joy.»
«People expect the clergy to have the grace of a swan, the friendliness of a sparrow, the strength of an eagle and the night hours of an owl - and some people expect such a bird to live on the food of a canary.»
Author: Edward Jeffrey
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People
| Keywords:
canary, canary bird, clergy, eagle, friendliness, owl, sparrow, swan, Swans, The Owl, The Sparrow, The Swan
«The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.»
«Olivier's idea of introspection was to hood his eyes, dentalize his consonants and let the camera circle his blondined head like a sparrow looking for a place to deposit its droppings.»
Author: Robert Brustein
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Ideas
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consonant, consonants, droppings, introspection, Olivier, sparrow
«I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert. I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house-top.»
«The longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth: that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid?»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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affairs, convincing, Empire, governs, man of affairs, notice, probable, proofs, See of, sparrow, Sparrows, The Sparrow
«I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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alight, alighted, alights, circumstance, distinguished, epaulet, epaulets, hoe, hoed, hoeing, shoulder, sparrow, Sparrows, The Sparrow, village, worn
«The sparrow-hawk loves the rainwater, falling in torrents; the king loves to see his wealth on display.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
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display, rainwater, sparrow, sparrow hawk, The Sparrow, torrents
«There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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Providence
| Keywords:
providence, sparrow, Sparrows, The Fall, The Sparrow
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