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«To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare.»
Author: Kenko Yoshida
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Generations
| Keywords:
compare, converse, generations, intimate, lamplight, spread, spread out, unseen
«What peace, what love, what truth, what beauty, what happiness for all, what generous kindness for you and me, are here spread out!»
«The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation.»
«I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts; / A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick; / Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels; / Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day.»
Author: Bible
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abominable, altars, brick, broth, gardens, Graves, holier-than-thou, holier, incense, in a way, lodge, lodge in, monuments, rebellious, spread out, stand by, swine, The graves, Vessels
«We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who, with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness within. But let us not imagine there is anything grand about the introvert's unhappiness.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
emptiness, gazes, introvert, maladies, malady, manifold, prone, spectacle, spread out
«The earth that has heights, and slopes, and great plains, that supports the plants of manifold virtue, free from the pressure that comes from the midst of men, she shall spread out for us, and fit. herself for us!»
«One of our great allies at present is the Church itself. Do not misunderstand me. I do not mean the Church as we see her spread out through all time and space and rooted in eternity, terrible as an army with banners. That, I confess, is a spectacle which makes our boldest tempters uneasy. But fortunately it is quite invisible to these humans.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
all-time, allies, at present, banners, boldest, fortunately, misunderstand, rooted, spectacle, spread out, tempter, the Tempter, time and space, uneasy
«People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give them up.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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impatient, impatient of, spread, spread out
«O man, when you were coiled in the cradle of the womb, upside-down, you were absorbed in meditation. You took no pride in your perishable body; night and day were all the same to you - you lived unknowing, in the silence of the void. Remember the terrible pain and suffering of those days, now that you have spread out the net of your consciousness far and wide.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
| Keywords:
coil, coiled, Coils, cradle, far and wide, Night and Day, spread out, The Net, The Silence, unknowing, upside down
«When the evening is spread out against the sky / Like a patient etherised upon a table.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
evening, patient, spread, spread out, table
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