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«Her eyes the glow-worm lend thee, / The shooting-stars attend thee; / And the elves also,/ Whose little eyes glow, / Like the sparks of fire, befriend thee.»
Author: Robert Herrick | Keywords: attend, befriend, befriended, befriending, befriends, ELF, elves, glow, Glow worm, lend, shooting, shooting star, Shooting Stars, sparks, worm
«In the dark room a cloud of yellow dust flew from beneath the tool like a scatter of sparks from under the hooves of a galloping horse. The twin wheels turned and hummed. Binet was smiling, his chin down, his nostrils distended. He seemed lost in the kind of happiness which, as a rule, accompanies only those mediocre occupations that tickle the intelligence with easy difficulties, and satisfy it with a sense of achievement beyond which there is nothing left for dreams to feed on.»
Author: Gustave Flaubert (Novelist) | About: Mediocrity | Keywords: Binet, chin, chinned, chins, dark horse, Dark Room, distended, dust cloud, feed on, flew, gallop, galloped, galloping, gallops, hoofs, hooves, horse sense, nostril, nostrils, occupations, scatter, sparks, take it on the chin, There Is Nothing Left, The Dark Room, twin, wheels
«It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutified his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.»
Author: Robert Southey (Poet, Writer) | About: Ambition, Hope | Keywords: aspirations, quenched, sparks
«A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering.»
Author: William S. Burroughs | Keywords: blazes, blazing, blue, burning, crackle, crackling, flame, hair, rage, sparks, sputter, sputtering
«Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: sparks
«Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground; / Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: sparks
«He that blows the coals in quarrels he has nothing to do with has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face»
Author: Benjamin Franklin (Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer) | Keywords: coals, quarrels, sparks
«Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: sparks
«Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: blazed, blazes, brightest, commonly, gladness, kindled, kindling, sparks, unexpected
«How hard it is to hide the sparks of nature!»
Author: William Shakespeare (Dramatist, Playwright, Poet) | Keywords: How Hard It Is, sparks
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