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Letter "B" » bearer
«A gesture cannot be regarded as the expression of an individual, as his creation (because no individual is capable of creating a fully original gesture, belonging to nobody else), nor can it even be regarded as that person's instrument; on the contrary, it is gestures that use us as their instruments, as their bearers and incarnations.»
Author: Milan Kundera
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Novelist,
Playwright,
Poet)
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Keywords:
bearer,
bearers,
belonging,
creating,
gesture,
gestures,
incarnations,
instruments,
on the contrary,
regarded,
the Incarnation
«And strive hard in (the way of) Allah, (such) a striving a is due to Him; He has chosen you and has not laid upon you an hardship in religion; the faith of your father Ibrahim; He named you Muslims before and in this, that the Apostle may be a bearer»
«And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day; / And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standard-bearer fainteth.»
«And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.»
«EVANGELIST, n. A bearer of good tidings, particularly (in a religious sense) such as assure us of our own salvation and the damnation of our neighbors.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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Editor,
Journalist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
assure,
bearer,
damnation,
evangelist,
Evangelists,
Good Neighbors,
neighbors,
of our own,
particularly,
salvation,
such as,
The Good Neighbor,
tidings
«Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and were overseers of all that wrought the work in any manner of service: and of the Levites there were scribes, and officers, and porters.»
«And he set threescore and ten thousand of them to be bearers of burdens, and fourscore thousand to be hewers in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people a work.»
«Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.»
Author: Buddha
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Keywords:
at will,
bearer,
difficult,
extremely,
guard,
guarded,
on guard,
on your guard,
perceive,
subtle,
subtler,
subtlest,
wander
«It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is little distinct left without an effort of memory, then indeed the lights are rekindled for a moment /but who can be sure that the Imagination is not the torch-bearer?»
Author: Lord Byron
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Keywords:
bearer,
distinct,
impair,
impaired,
impairing,
impairs,
luster,
obliterate,
obliterated,
obliterates,
rekindle,
rekindled
«They are, as it were, train-bearers in the pageant of life, and hold a glass up to humanity, frailer than itself. We see ourselves at second-hand in them: they show us all that we are, all that we wish to be, and all that we dread to be. What brings the resemblance nearer is, that, as they imitate us, we, in our turn, imitate them. There is no class of society whom so many persons regard with affection as actors.»