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«The iron chain and the silken cord are both equally bonds»
Author: Friedrich von Schiller
(Dramatist, Historian, Philosopher, Poet)
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bonds, chain, cord, corded, silken
«Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.»
«Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.»
Author: Henry James
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Experience
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«There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
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consciousness, flutter, fluttered, fluttering, flutters, holier, ours, silken, This Life, wings
«Come live with me, and be my love, and we will some new pleasures prove, Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines and silver hooks»
Author: John Donne
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Brooks, crystal, crystals, hooks, lines, new line, sands, silken, silver, silver lining, the Crystal
«YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor of endowing a living Homer.Youth is the true Saturnian Reign, the Golden Age on earth again, when figs are grown on thistles, and pigs betailed with whistles and, wearing silken bristles, live ever in clover, and clows fly over, delivering milk at every door, and Justice never is heard to snore, and every assassin is made a ghost and, howling, is cast into Baltimost! --Polydore Smith»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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Archimedes, assassin, bristle, bristles, bristling, bristling with, Cassandra, clover, clovers, delivering, endowing, figs, fulcrum, Golden Age, homer, silken, snore, snores, snoring, The Golden Age, thistle, thistles, whistles
«I consider the positions of kings and rulers as that of dust motes. I observe treasures of gold and gems as so many bricks and pebbles. I look upon the finest silken robes as tattered rags. I see myriad worlds of the universe as small seeds of fruit, and the greatest lake on Earth as a drop of oil on my foot.»
«Who are these coming to the sacrifice? To what green altar, O mysterious priest, Lead'st thou that heifer lowing at the skiews, And all her silken flanks with garlands dressed? What little town by river or sea shore, Or mountain-built with peaceful c»
Author: John Keats
(Poet)
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flank, flanks, garlands, heifer, lowing, sea green, silken, The Sacrifice
«O fairest flower, no sooner blown but blasted, / Soft silken primrose fading timelessly.»
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