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«A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.»
Author: James Dickey
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Poetry
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hoping, lightened, lightening, lightens, lighten up, outside, poet, rain, stands, strike out, struck
«Over-seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up.»
Author: Michael J. Gelb
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bureaucratic, high-performance, lighten, lightened, lightening, lightens, lighten up, mastery, performance, secure, seriousness, warning
«More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.»
Author: Thomas Traherne
(Mystic, Poet)
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«No one is useless in the world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else.»
«Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
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ember, embers, fires, lightened, lightening, lightens, lighten up, spiritless, stirred, tasks
«Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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Revolution
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lightened, lightening, lightens, lighten up, revolutions, shifted, shoulder
«No loss by flood and lightening, no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of so many noble lives and impulses as those which his intolerance has destroyed»
Author: Helen Keller
(Author, Educator)
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«The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| About:
Sacrifice
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Buddha, doer, lightened, lightening, lightens, lighten up, painful, the Buddha, The Sacrifice
«Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties.»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Friendship
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anxieties, brighter, lightened, lightening, lightens, lighten up, prosperity, sharing
«The burden of self is lightened when I laugh at myself.»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
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lightened, lightening, lightens, lighten up
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