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«Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.»
«How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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down, downed, Down in It, Down Under, Down With Me, have-not, sit, sit by, sit down, stand out, stood, take down, The Stand, To Live, up to, vain, write
«Dear youth, you have won through goodness. You were the ones who came to Christ and calmly stood by the cross. Stand by him all your lives.»
«In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the other eyes as mine see it.»
Author: Michelangelo
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Art
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apparition, apparitions, block, hew, hewing, imprison, lovely, reveal, rough, shaped, stood, walls
«I believe that when you know something's going wrong, you make it right. That's what I learned in Vietnam. When I came back from that war I saw that it was wrong. Some people don't like the fact that I stood up to say no, but I did»
«Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?»
«Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe»
«It was not death, for I stood up, / And all the dead lie down; / It was not night, for all the bells / Put out their tongues, for noon.»
Author: Emily Dickinson
(Poet)
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bells, lie down, noon, putting to death, put out, stood, The Dead, tongues
«I stood on the bridge at midnight, / As the clocks were striking the hour.»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
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bridge, midnight, stood, striking, The Bridge, The Clocks
«I stood tip-toe upon a little hill.»
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