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«And the matches gave such a brilliant light that it was brighter than at noon-day: never formerly had the grandmother been so beautiful and so tall. She took the little maiden, on her arm, and both flew in brightness and in joy so high, so very high, and then above was neither cold, nor hunger, nor anxiety--they were with God.»
Author: Hans Christian Andersen
(Author)
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brighter, brightness, flew, formerly, grandmother, high noon, maiden, matches, noon, tall
«Habits of thought persist through the centuries; and while a healthy brain may reject the doctrine it no longer believes, it will continue to feel the same sentiments formerly associated with that doctrine.»
Author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
(Economist, Lecturer, Writer)
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associated, Brain may, formerly, persist, reject, sentiments
«Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.»
«Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.»
Author: Thomas S. Szasz
(Professor)
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Happiness
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adults, attributed, attributing, formerly, imaginary, imaginary being, The Dead
«Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!»
«Every tiny step forward in the world was formerly made at the cost of mental and physical torture.»
«Formerly, his heart had been as a locked casket with its treasure inside; but now the casket was empty, and the lock was broken. Left groping in darkness, with his prop utterly gone, Silas had inevitably a sense, though a dull and half-despairing one, that if any help came to him it must come from without; and there was a slight stirring of expectation at the sight of his fellow-men, a faint consciousness of dependence on their goodwill.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
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casket, caskets, dependence, despairing, expectation, faint, formerly, groped, grope for, groping, inevitably, in darkness, lock, locked, prop, propped, propping, props, prop up, Silas, slight, stirring
«As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.»
Author: Jean Paul Richter
(Novelist)
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concealed, enjoyments, enlarge, formerly, prospect, regions, The Coming, to enlarge
«Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarize them. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
canonize, canonized, delightful, detestable, edition, editions, formerly, Great Books, vulgarize, vulgarized
«As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man, upon easier terms than I was formerly»
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