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Letter "A" » awful
«He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.»
Author: Aeschylus
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Dramatist,
Playwright)
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Keywords:
awful,
despair,
drop,
drop by,
falls,
grace,
grace of God,
learns,
sleep,
suffer
«Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be»
Author: Benjamin Spock
(
Author,
Pediatrician)
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About:
Anger,
Children,
Family,
Parents,
Senses
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Keywords:
awful,
dread,
expressed,
horse sense,
misbehave,
misbehaved,
misbehaving,
openly,
wondering
«I think it's important that everyday we think about the work we need to do to make this world a better place. I mean, we should wake up thinking about it and go to bed thinking about tomorrow's tasks. There's an awful lot of change needing to be made around here.»
«In some awful, strange, paradoxical way, atheists tend to take religion more seriously than the practitioners.»
«A relationship is like a rose, How long it lasts, no one knows. Love can erase an awful past, love can be yours, you'll see at last. To feel that love, it makes you sigh, To have it leave, you'd rather die. You hope you've found that special rose, 'cause you love and care for the one you chose.»
Author: Rob Cella
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About:
Friends,
Friendship,
Love
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Keywords:
at last,
at long last,
awful,
care,
care for,
cause,
choose up,
chose,
die,
erase,
erases,
Erase The Past,
erasing,
feel,
For the,
found,
hope,
knows,
last,
lasts,
leave,
long,
makes,
making known,
No One,
past,
rather,
relationship,
rose,
sigh,
special,
specials,
The One
«Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is, and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely»
Author: John Milton
(
Historian,
Poet,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
abash,
abashed,
awful,
devil,
felt,
goodness,
lovely,
saw,
shape,
stood,
the Devil
«Abashed the devil stood, / And felt how awful goodness is.»
«GORGON, n.The Gorgon was a maiden bold Who turned to stone the Greeks of old That looked upon her awful brow. We dig them out of ruins now, And swear that workmanship so bad Proves all the ancient sculptors mad.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(
Editor,
Journalist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
Ancient Greek,
ancient Greeks,
awful,
bold,
brow,
dig,
Gorgon,
Greeks,
maiden,
proves,
ruins,
sculptors,
swear,
the Greeks,
workmanship
«It's awful hard trying to make love long distance, but I really need stimulation.»
«Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful. So you might as well live.»