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«Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.»
Author: Arthur Golden
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Adversity
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adversities, adversity, all but, strong, tears, torn, wind
«All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated...As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all: but how much more me, who am brought so near the door by this sickness....No man is an island, entire of itself...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.»
Author: John Donne
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«A rugged, strife-torn and mountaineering people were suddenly turned into an indomitable Arab force, which achieved a series of splendid victories unparalleled in the history of nations, for in the short space of ninety years that mighty range of Sar»
Author: Simon Ockley
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«And every occasion when a mask was torn off, an ideal broken, was preceded by this hateful vacancy and stillness, this deathly constriction and loneliness and unrelatedness, this waste and empty hell of lovelenessness and despair, such as I had now t»
Author: Hermann Hesse
(Novelist, Poet)
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breaking off, break off, constriction, deathly, hateful, mask, occasion, preceded, stillness, T, torn, unrelatedness, vacancies, vacancy
«And he went and found his carcase cast in the way, and the ass and the lion standing by the carcase: the lion had not eaten the carcase, nor torn the ass.»
«And every soul that eateth that which died of itself, or that which was torn with beasts, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger, he shall both wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even: then shall he be clean.»
«And ye shall be holy men unto me: neither shall ye eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs.»
«A tragedy like this could have torn our country apart. But instead it has united us, and we have become a family.»
«A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child»
«A family is a little kingdom, torn with factions and exposed to revolutions.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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Family
| Keywords:
exposed, factions, revolutions, torn
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