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Letter "D" » deferred
«What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up - like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore - And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over - like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags - like a heavy lead»
Author: Langston Hughes
(
Essayist,
Poet,
Writer)
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About:
Dreams
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Keywords:
crust,
Crusts,
deferred,
defers,
dry run,
dry up,
fester,
festering,
festers,
raisin,
raisins,
rotten,
run dry,
sag,
Sagged,
sagging,
sags,
sore,
stink,
sugar,
Sweet Dreams,
syrupy
«I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.»
Author: Mia Hamm
(
Soccer Player)
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About:
Soccer,
Sports,
Team work
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Keywords:
champion,
defer,
deferred,
deferring,
defers,
member,
rely,
team,
The Team
«I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.»
Author: Stephan Grellet
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About:
Kindness
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Keywords:
again,
All Things Must Pass,
any,
can-do,
creature,
defer,
deferred,
deferring,
defers,
do it,
expect,
fellow,
Fellow Creature,
good,
Good Thing,
in passing,
I Pass,
kindness,
kindnesses,
let,
neglect,
neglecting,
neglects,
now,
once,
Once and Again,
pass,
passes out,
pass out,
pass through,
shall,
show,
therefore,
The Creatures,
The Fellows,
thing,
this,
through,
way
«I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.»
«Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life (Proverbs 13:12).»
«We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age»