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Letter "W" » wild
«Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
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Solitude
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beast, delighted, solitude, wild
«When the Man waked up he said, 'What is Wild Dog doing here?' And the Woman said 'His name is not Wild Dog any more, but the First Friend, because he will be our friend for always and always and always.'»
«When despair for the world grows in me, and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be -- I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought or grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.»
Author: Wendell Berry
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«To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.»
«With a fierce action of her hand, as if she sprinkled hatred on the ground, and with it devoted those who were standing there to destruction, she looked up once at the black sky, and strode out into the wild night.»
«We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
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«Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man /and after that, praying.»
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