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«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
(
Dramatist,
Playwright)
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Keywords:
awful,
despair,
drop,
drop by,
falls,
grace,
grace of God,
learns,
sleep,
suffer
«I'm just looking for that moment to drop my Jedi knickers and pull out my real light saber.»
«Everyone should live to be 92 years old, have an orgasm and drop dead.»
«Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.»
Author: John Muir
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About:
Nature
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Keywords:
autumn,
blow,
cares,
climb,
drop,
drop off,
energy,
flow,
flows,
freshness,
Into You,
leaves,
mountains,
mountain climbing,
storms,
sunshine,
tidings,
trees,
winds
«If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?»
Author: Stephen Wright
(
Actor,
Writer)
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About:
Cats,
Funny
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Keywords:
back,
back down,
butter,
buttered,
CAT,
cats,
down,
drop,
drop back,
drop by,
drop down,
drop in,
drop out,
feet,
happens,
land,
lands,
on land,
side,
sided,
Side Out,
strap,
strapped,
straps,
toast,
toasted,
toasting
«A jug fills drop by drop.»
«Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.»
Author: Galileo Galilei
(
Astronomer,
Mathematician,
Philosopher)
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About:
Facts
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Keywords:
at first,
cloak,
cloaked,
cloaking,
cloaks,
drop,
explanation,
improbable,
naked,
scant,
scanted
«Do not think of your faults, still less of others' faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.»
Author: John Ruskin
(
Critic,
Writer)
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About:
Faults
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Keywords:
As Good as Dead,
drop,
drop dead,
drop off,
faults,
good and,
imitate,
leaves,
look for,
take time off,
time off
«If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what you will, is the great high-road to his reason, and which, when once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing his judgment of the justice of your cause.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(
President)
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Keywords:
catches,
convince,
drop,
first cause,
flies,
fly high,
gal,
gallon,
gallons,
honey,
sincere,
therein
«If you ever drop your keys into a river of molten lava, let 'em go, because man, they're gone.»