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Letter "C" » cannons
«We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.»
Author: Dwight L. Moody
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Evangelist)
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Keywords:
attention,
call attention,
cannons,
Let There Be Light,
lighthouse,
lighthouses,
shine,
shining,
Shining Light,
The Lighthouse,
told
«The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Humorist,
Physician,
Poet,
Professor,
Writer)
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Keywords:
a great deal,
cannon,
cannons,
deal,
echo,
echoed,
echoing,
great deal,
lasts,
longer,
loud,
sound,
The Sound
«We are the boys / That fear no noise / Where the thundering cannons roar.»
«Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Essayist,
Lecturer,
Poet)
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Keywords:
balls,
ball up,
cannon,
cannons,
cannon ball,
contradict,
contradicted,
contradicting,
morrow,
morrows,
On The Ball
«Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth»