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Letter "W" » winds
«Our history sings of centuries Such varying songs it sings! It starts with winds, slow moving sails, It ends with skies and wings»
Author: Catherine Cate Coblentz
| About:
History
| Keywords:
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«Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.»
Author: Teilhard de Chardin
(Geologist, Mystic, Philosopher, Priest)
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«Let mystery have its place in you; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination, but leave a little fallow corner in your heart ready for any seed the winds may bring...»
Author: Henri Frederic Amiel
| About:
Mystery
| Keywords:
corner, examination, fallow, For any, Left Turn, ploughshare, self-examination, soil, turning, winds
«May the raindrops fall lightly on your brow. May the soft winds freshen your spirit. May the sunshine brighten your heart. May the burdens of the day rest lightly upon you, and may God enfold you in the mantle of His love.»
«May you always have walls for the winds, a roof for the rain, tea beside the fire, laughter to cheer you, those you love near you and all your heart might desire.»
«It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another»
«Out of defeat can come the best in human nature. As Christians face storms of adversity, they may rise with more beauty. They are like trees that grow on mountain ridges -- battered by winds, yet trees in which we find the strongest wood.»
«Our passions are the winds that propel our vessel. Our reason is the pilot that steers her. Without winds the vessel would not move and without a pilot she would be lost.»
«Press close bare-bosomed night -- press close magnetic nourishing night! Night of south winds! night of the large few stars! Still nodding night! mad naked summer night.»
Author: Walt Whitman
(Poet)
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bare, bosomed, naked, nodded, nodding, nods, nourishing, South, south wind, summer, winds
«Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.»
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