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«Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.»
Author: Baron Lytton Richelieu | Keywords: beneath, entirely, his pen, mightier, pen, penned, rule of, sword, The Sword
«...my love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath - a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff - he's always, always in my mind - not as a pleasure, any more then I am always a pleasure to myself - but, as my own being...»
Author: Emily Bronte (Author, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: beneath, resembles, rocks, The Eternal, visible
«. . . these are the times of dreamy quietude, when beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean's skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would not willingly remember, that this velvet paw but conceals a remorseless fang.»
Author: Herman Melville (Novelist, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: beholding, beneath, brilliancy, conceals, dreamy, fang, forgets, ocean, pants, paw, pawing, paws, quietude, remorseless, The Tiger, The Times, tiger, tranquil, velvet, velvets, willingly
«Be like the bird that, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings.»
Author: Victor Hugo (Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Behavior | Keywords: awhile, beneath, bird, boughs, feels, flight, give way, in flight, paused, pausing, sings, slight, slighted, slights, take flight, The Bird, wings
«As usual I finish the day before the sea, sumptuous this evening beneath the moon, which writes Arab symbols with phosphorescent streaks on the slow swells. There is no end to the sky and the waters. How well they accompany sadness!»
Author: Albert Camus (Essayist, Novelist, Playwright) | Keywords: accompany, Arab, as usual, beneath, evening, finish, no end, phosphorescent, sadness, streak, streaked, streaks, sumptuous, swelled, swells, swell up, swollen, symbols, this evening, usual, waters, writes
«Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.»
Author: Charles Dickens | Keywords: actor, begets, begot, beneath, brief, circle, confusion, departure, departures, dug, dust, familiar, habituate, habituated, instant, monotonous, narrow, objects, propagated, propagates, propagating, rock, sand, scene, signal, signaling, space travel, sprung, travels
«A thousand miles starts from beneath one's feet.»
Author: Lao Tzu (Philosopher) | Keywords: beneath, miles
«All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: at once, beneath, peril, surface, surfaced, surfaces, symbol, The Perils of
«Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson (Author, President) | About: Deception, Pleasure, Sin | Keywords: bait, baited, baiting, baits, beneath, hook, hooking, hook up, hook up with, till
«Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.»
Author: Victor Hugo (Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: all the same, bending, beneath, bird, branch, branched, branch out, feels, frail, frailer, frailest, knowing, on the wing, perch, perched, perches, She, sings, still, The Bends, wings
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