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«Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance...is a celebration of that miracle.»
Author: Martha Washington
(First Lady)
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celebration, celebrations, comparatively, foot, footed, magic, miracle, rests, The Celebration, The Magic, weight, weighted
«One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.»
«Resolve that whatever you do, you will bring the whole man to it; that you will fling the whole weight of your being into it.»
Author: Orison Swett Marden
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fling, flinging, flings, resolve, The Whole Man, weight, weighted
«I was never interested in the obvious, or in the details one takes for granted, and everybody seemed to be addicted to the obvious, being astonished by it, and forever harping about the details which I had long ago weighted, measured, and discarded a»
«Use now and then a little Exercise a quarter of an Hour before Meals, as to swing a Weight, or swing your Arms about with a small Weight in each Hand; to leap, or the like, for that stirs the Muscles of the Breast.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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arms, breast, breasted, exercise, leap, leapt, leap out, meals, muscles, muscle into, now and then, quarter, small arms, stirs, swing, Swing On, swing over, swung, the like, The Swing, weight, weighted
«I feel better when I have more weight on me. So it's when I'm not feeling like myself that people are telling me I look great. It's so strange. No matter what, somehow it's like I'm not enough.»
«SEINE, n. A kind of net for effecting an involuntary change of environment. For fish it is made strong and coarse, but women are more easily taken with a singularly delicate fabric weighted with small, cut stones.The devil casting a seine of lace,(With precious stones 'twas weighted) Drew it into the landing place And its contents calculated.All souls of women were in that sack -- A draft miraculous, precious! But ere he could throw it across his back They'd all escaped through the meshes. --Baruch de Loppis»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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All Souls, Baruch, coarse, contents, cut across, draft, Drew, effecting, involuntary, lace, landing place, mesh, miraculous, net, precious stones, sack, seine, singularly, taken with, weighted
«I don't like your miserable lonely single ''front name.'' It is so limited, so meager; it has no versatility; it is weighted down with the sense of responsibility; it is worn threadbare with much use; it is as bad as having only one jacket and one hat; it is like having only one relation, one blood relation, in the world. Never set a child afloat on the flat sea of life with only one sail to catch the wind.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
afloat, bad blood, bad hat, blood relation, flat, jacket, meager, One Blood, sense of responsibility, threadbare, versatility, wear down, weighted, worn
«He shifted his weight from foot to foot, but it was equally uncomfortable on each.»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)
| Keywords:
equally, foot, footed, shifted, shifts, uncomfortable, weight, weighted
«The weight of this sad time we must obey;Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
obey, The Weight, weight, weighted
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