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Letter "S" » stone
«Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone, Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own»
«Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.»
«Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.»
Author: John Burroughs
(Essayist, Naturalist)
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Nature
| Keywords:
preaches, sermons, spark, stone, stones, teaches
«Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.»
Author: Ursula K. LeGuin
(Writer)
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
all the time, bread, remade, remakes, remaking, stone
«The Breath becomes a stone; the stone, a plant; the plant, an animal; the animal, a man; the man, a spirit; and the spirit, a god.»
«The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong»
«Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose.»
«Reading those turgid philosophers here in these remote stone buildings may not get you a job, but if those books have forced you to ask yourself questions about what makes life truthful, purposeful, meaningful, and redeeming, you have the Swiss Army Knife of mental tools, and it's going to come in handy all the time.»
Author: Bill Watterson
(Author)
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army, Book of Job, Buildings, come in, come in handy, forced, handier, Handy, knife, philosophers, purposeful, redeeming, remote, remotest, stone, Swiss, the Swiss, tools, truthful, turgid
«The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
bite, bite out, bit by bit, conscience, dog, dog bite, stone, stupidity
«One should never fear sorrow because it is the stepping stone to happiness, »
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