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Letter "W" » windings
«There are moments when a man's imagination so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny»
Author: Edith Wharton
(Novelist)
| About:
Destiny,
Imagination
| Keywords:
rises, subdued, surveying, surveys, windings
«May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.»
«There's a long, long trail a-winding / Into the land of my dreams.»
«The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.»
Author: Havelock Ellis
| Keywords:
height, nervous, population, prevalence, snapped, snapping, snaps, snap at, tension, utmost, winding, windings
«The long and winding road that leads to your door / Will never disappear, / I've seen that road before it always leads me here, / Leads me to your door.»
«All rising to a great place is by a winding stair»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
rising, stair, winding, windings, wind rose
«Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
mountains, paths, surmount, surmounted, surmounting, winding, windings
«Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life. Each lapse is like the letting fall of a ball of string which one is carefully winding up; a single slip undoes more than a great many turns will wind again.»
«The harlot's cry from street to street / Shall weave old England's winding-sheet.»
«He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
by and by, strike, winding, windings, wit
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