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«The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.»
Author: George Moore
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
dim, dimmed, dimming, dims, fountain, I am alive, look upon, perfumed, singing, The Hours, twilight
«Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity»
Author: William Butler Yeats
(Dramatist, Poet, Writer)
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Anarchy
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anarchy, bad blood, center, ceremony, conviction, dimmed, dimming, dims, drowned, fall apart, innocence, intensities, intensity, loosed, passionate, The Anarchy, The Center, Things Fall Apart, tide
«In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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background, backgrounds, Background and, dim, dimmed, dimming, dims, in the background, ought, somehow, start
«This life's dim windows of the soulDistorts the heavens from pole to poleAnd leads you to believe a lieWhen you see with, not through, the eye.»
«In other men we faults can spy,/ And blame the mote that dims their eye;/ Each little speck and blemish find;/ To our own stronger errors blind.»
«If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Conscience,
Meaning,
Reason
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consciences, dimming, existed, intolerable, One half
«The man that sets out to carry a cat by it's tail learns something that will always be useful and which will never grow dim or doubtful.»
«Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.»
«Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have s»
Author: William Butler Yeats
(Dramatist, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
blue, cloths, dark blue, dim, dimmed, dimming, dims, embroider, embroidered, embroiders, half-light, heavens, silver, spread
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