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«Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own webs from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch»
«Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of the government.»
Author: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
(Journalist, Politician)
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
chains, fishing, mighty, nets, netting, spider, steel, steels, webs
«Laws are like spiders' webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape»
«Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive»
«Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.»
«Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave, when they think their children are na?ve.»
«Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.»
«The means to gain happiness is to throw out from oneself like a spider in all directions an adhesive web of love, and to catch in it all that comes»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
adhesive, directions, spider, throw out, web, webs
«The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.»
Author: Pablo Picasso
(Artist, Painter)
| About:
Art,
Emotion
| Keywords:
all over, paper, passing, receptacle, receptacles, scrap, scraps, shape, spider, spider web, web, webs
«The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.»
Author: William Blake
(Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet)
| About:
Friendship
| Keywords:
bird, spider, The Bird, The Spider, web, webs
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