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Letter "W" » wind
«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
«Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.»
Author: Comte DeBussy-Rabutin
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Absence
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absence, enkindled, enkindles, extinguishes, extinguishing, Great Fire, wind
«For what is it to die, But to stand in the sun and melt into the wind?»
«If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.»
«A crisis is an opportunity riding the dangerous wind»
«In all institutions from which the cold wind of open criticism is excluded, an innocent corruption begins to grow like a mushroom - for example, in senates and learned societies»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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cold, corruption, criticism, example, excluded, excludes, excluding, for example, innocent, innocents, innocent of, institutions, in all, mushroom, mushrooms, Open society, senates, societies, such institutions, wind
«In the love of narrow souls I make many short voyages but in vain - I find no sea room - but in great souls I sail before the wind without a watch, and never reach the shore.»
«For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And what is it to cease breathing but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
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breath, breathing, breathings, cease, expand, melt, naked, restless, rise, Rising Sun, rising tide, Sun rise, sun rose, The Sun, The Wind, tides, unencumbered, wind, wind rose
«If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.»
«If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him»
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