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«Festival of the impassioned efforts and manifold ambitions of all forms of youthful activity of every generation springing from the threshold of life.»
«And her lord rose up in the morning, and opened the doors of the house, and went out to go his way: and, behold, the woman his concubine was fallen down at the door of the house, and her hands were upon the threshold.»
«And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon he was, to the threshold of the house. And he called to the man clothed with linen, which had the writer's inkhorn by his side; / And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.»
«And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate without, and shall stand by the post of the gate, and the priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate: then he shall go forth; but the gate shall not be shut until the evening.»
«And every little chamber was one reed long, and one reed broad; and between the little chambers were five cubits; and the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate within was one reed.»
«Grief for a dead Wife, and a troublesome Guest, Continues to the threshold, and there is at rest; But I mean such wives as are none of the best»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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Grief
| Keywords:
at rest, continues, threshold, troublesome
«And Jeroboam's wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah: and when she came to the threshold of the door, the child died; / And they buried him; and all Israel mourned for him, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by the hand of his servant Ahijah the prophet.»
«Before the starry threshold of Jove's Court / My mansion is.»
«A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our usual springs of delight into full view, and turn us into melancholy metaphysicians.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
cooling, cool down, core, descent, excitability, in full view, irritable, pain threshold, The Core, threshold, usual, worm
«For many men that stumble at the threshold are well foretold that danger lurks within.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
danger, foretell, foretells, foretold, lurks, stumble, threshold, thresholds
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