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«The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it»
Author: Edward Fitzgerald | Keywords: cancel, canceled, canceling, cancels, finger, lure, lured, lures, luring, move back, piety, wash, wash out, writ, writes
«Savor sufficient to lure the wispiest ghost into corpulence.»
Author: Israel Shenker | Keywords: corpulence, ghost, lure
«The rise of computer crime and armed robbery has not eliminated the lure of caged cash.»
Author: James Chiles | Keywords: armed, armed robbery, caged, cash, eliminated, lure, lured, lures, luring, robberies, robbery
«Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.»
Author: Samuel Ullman | Keywords: appetite, center, cheer, Joy of, lure, lured, lures, luring, messages, receives, sixteen, sixty, The Center, The Station, unfailing, wireless
«In time the savage bull sustains the yoke, / In time all haggard hawks will stoop to lure. / In time small wedges cleave the hardest oak, / In time the flint is pierced with softest shower.»
Author: Thomas Kyd | Keywords: bull, cleave, cleaved, cleaving, cleft, Flint, flints, haggard, hawking, hawks, in time, lure, lured, lures, luring, oak, pierced, pierces, piercing, savage, shower, softest, stoop, sustains, wedge, wedges, yoke, yoked, yokes
«Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.»
Author: W. Eugene Smith | About: Photography | Keywords: at best, awareness, group, lure, lured, lures, luring, photograph, photography, small voice
«The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.»
Author: John Burroughs (Essayist, Naturalist) | Keywords: deceptive, distant, lure, lured, lures, luring
«PARDON, v. To remit a penalty and restore to the life of crime. To add to the lure of crime the temptation of ingratitude.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: ingratitude, lure, remit, remitted
«To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence. He is struggling against vagueness, against obscurity, against the lure of the decorative adjective, against the encroachment of Latin and Greek, and, above all, against the worn-out phrases and dead metaphors with which the language is cluttered up.»
Author: George Orwell (Essayist, Novelist) | Keywords: adjective, adjectives, cluttered, Dead language, decorative, encroachment, encroachments, Greek, Greek word, Latin, lure, lured, lures, obscurity, phrases, reliable, struggling, vagueness, worn, worn out, writes
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