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Letter "S" » spur
«Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.»
Author: Dag Hammarskjold
(Statesman)
| About:
Loneliness
| Keywords:
finding, loneliness, spur, spurred, To Die For
«The hope, and not the fact, of advancement, is the spur to industry.»
«The gap between ideals and actualities, between dreams and achievements, the gap that can spur strong men to increased exertions, but can break the spirit of others / this gap is the most conspicuous, continuous land mark in American history. It is conspicuous and continuous not because Americans achieve little, but because they dream grandly. The gap is a standing reproach to Americans; but it marks them off as a special and singularly admirable community among the world's peoples.»
Author: George F. Will
| Keywords:
achievements, actualities, admirable, American history, breaking off, break off, conspicuous, continuous, exertions, gap, grandly, increased, Marks, peoples, reproach, reproaches, reproaching, singularly, spur, The Admirable, The Gap
«The fine delight that fathers thought; the strong / Spur, live and lancing like the blowpipe flame, / Breathes once and, quench?d faster than it came, / Leaves yet the mind a mother of immortal song.»
«The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?»
«We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do--it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory b»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
blinking, onto, promontory, spur
«These studies are a spur to the young, a delight to the old; an ornament in prosperity, a consoling refuge in adversity; they are pleasure for us at home, and no burden abroad; they stay up with us at night, they accompany us when we travel, they are»
«You think it horrible that lust and rageShould dance attendance upon my old age;They were not such a plague when I was young;What else have I to spur me into song?»
Author: William Butler Yeats
(Dramatist, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
attendance, in attendance, lust, plague, spur
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