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«He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it»
Author: James Boswell (Biographer) | Keywords: lash, lashed, lashes, lashing, provoked, smarts
«If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.»
Author: Mary McLeod Bethune (Educator) | About: Courage, Tenacity | Keywords: firmly, lash, lashed, lashes
«Now I know that so long as we have social inequality we shall have snobs; we shall have men who bully and truckle, and women who snub and crawl. I know that it is futile to, spurn them, or lash them for trying to get on in the world, and that the world is what it must be from the selfish motives which underlie our economic life.»
Author: William Dean Howells | Keywords: bully, crawl, futile, get on, inequality, lash, lashes, snobs, snub, snubbed, snubs, spurn, spurned, truckle, underlie
«He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the winds. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most me»
Author: Albert Pike (Journalist, Lawyer, Soldier) | Keywords: Against A, baffle, baffles, baffling, endeavors, lashed, lashes, lashing, rapid, rapids, roar, struggles, swimmer, waves
«If I make the lashes darkAnd the eyes more brightAnd the lips more scarlet,Or ask if all be rightFrom mirror after mirror,No vanity's displayed:I'm looking for the face I hadBefore the world was made.»
Author: William Butler Yeats (Dramatist, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: Bright Eyes, displayed, lashed, lashes, lashing, scarlet, vanity
«All kin' o' smily round the lips, / An' teary round the lashes.»
Author: James Russell Lowell (Critic, Diplomat, Editor, Essayist, Poet) | Keywords: kin, lashes, teary
«Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.»
Author: John Dryden (Critic, Dramatist, Poet) | Keywords: assail, assailed, assailing, assails, foes, lash, lashed, lashes, lashing, roused, stubborn
«I have no faith in my works. I know time's ocean, its lashing of waves, day by day, will erase them. My faith is in my self.»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore (Essayist, Playwright, Poet) | Keywords: day by day, erase, lashed, lashes, lashing
«Hurrah for revolution and more cannon-shot!A beggar upon horseback lashes a beggar on foot,Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again!The beggars have changed places but the lash goes on.»
Author: William Butler Yeats (Dramatist, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: beggar, beggars, Beggar on Horseback, cannon, hurrah, hurrahs, lash, lashes
«Don't talk to me about Naval tradition! It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash»
Author: Winston Churchill (Author, Orator, Prime Minister) | Keywords: lash, lashed, lashes, lashing, rum, sodomy, talk to me, tradition
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