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«One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach; one can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few»
Author: Anne Morrow Lindbergh
| About:
Beauty
| Keywords:
beach, collect, collects, On the Beach, shells, The Beach, The Beaches
«It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
(Author, Essayist, Poet)
| Keywords:
be born, collecting, fortunate, millionaire, shells
«OYSTER, n. A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails! The shells are sometimes given to the poor.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
entrails, hardihood, shellfish, shells, slimier, slimy
«Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which a chick which has not broken its way through its shell might form of the outside world.»
«Compassion for the friend should conceal itself under a hard shell»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
compassion, conceal, shell, shells
«He'd offer you an egg if you promised not to break the shell.»
«Nature has neither kernel nor shell; she is everything at once»
«O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief... for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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adore, aid, Amen, beset, besets, besetting, blast, blight, blighted, blights, bloody, contrite, cover, drown, Fields, foot soldier, foot soldiers, guns, Hearts of, homes, hurricane, hurricanes, pale, patriot, pilgrimage, pilgrimages, protract, protracted, protracting, protracts, sakes, shells, shred, shredded, shreds, shriek, shrieked, shrieking, shrieks, smiling, Snow White, soldiers, sore, stain, tear, The Hurricane, the pale, The Pilgrimage, The White, thunder, unavailing, unoffending, widowed, widows, wounded, wring, Wringing, wrings, writhe, writhed, writhes, writhing
«Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Beauty
| Keywords:
an explanation, beauty, call, dark, explanation, facts, form, genius, higher, high water, indeed, moon, needs, reflection, shell, shells, silver, silvering, springtime, sunlight, The Great, The Moon, water
«Children are living beings - more living than grown-up people who have built shells of habit around themselves. Therefore it is absolutely necessary for their mental health and development that they should not have mere schools for their lessons, but»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Children
| Keywords:
Grown up, shells
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