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«Anger blows out the lamp of the mind»
«Into my heart an air that kills / From yon far country blows: / What are those blue remembered hills, / What spires, what farms are those?»
Author: A. E. Housman
(Poet, Scholar)
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blows, farms, hills, Hill Country, Into My Heart, spire, spires, yon
«Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.»
Author: Frederick Douglass
(Abolitionist, Author, Lecturer, Slave)
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«It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.»
«Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.»
«Human misery must somewhere have a stop: there is no wind that always blows a storm.»
«It's an ill will that blows when you leave the hairdresser»
«Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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Absence
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«In peace there's nothing so becomes a manAs modest stillness and humility;But when the blast of war blows in our ears,Then imitate the action of the tiger:Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;Now set the teeth, and stretch the nostril wide,Hold hard the breath, and bend up every spiritTo his full height!»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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Peace
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«Fortune knows we scorn her most when most she offers blows.»
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