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«It's hame and it's hame, hame fain wad I be, / O, hame, hame, hame to my ain countree!»
«Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall»
Author: Walter Raleigh, Sr.
| Keywords:
fain
«And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.»
«For God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.»
«He would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat.»
«And be on they guard against the good and the just! They would fain crucify those who devise their own virtue - they hate the lonesome ones»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
be on, crucify, crucifying, devise, fain
«I belive that there is a subtile magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright. It is not indifferent to us which way we walk. There is a right way; but we are very liable from heedlessness and stupidity to take the wrong one. We would fain take that walk, never yet taken by us through this actual world, which is perfectly symbolical of the path which we love to travel in the interior and ideal world; and sometimes, no doubt, we find it difficult to choose our direction, because it does not yet exist distinctly in our idea.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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Direction
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actual, aright, distinctly, fain, heedlessness, indifferent, Interior, liable, no doubt, symbolical, Take That, unconsciously, yield
«In my walks I would fain return to my senses»
«Fain would I hide what I fear to discover»
«I am not worthy of the wealth I owe, nor dare I say 'tis mine, and yet it is; but, like a timorous thief, most fain would steal what law does vouch mine own.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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fain, steal, thief, timorous, vouch
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