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Letter "G" » glide by
«In life as in dance: Grace glides on blistered feet»
Author: Alice Abrams
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Keywords:
blister,
blistered,
blisters,
dance,
feet,
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gliding,
grace
«Here at the fountain's sliding foot, / Or at some fruit tree's mossy root, / Casting the body's vest aside, / My soul into the boughs does glide.»
Author: Andrew Marvell
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Poet,
Politician,
Satirist)
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Keywords:
aside,
boughs,
casting,
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fountain,
fruit tree,
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The Fountain,
vest,
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«A stream is music and motion: smooth glides, fast, turbulent riffles and deep pools, each posing a special challenge.»
Author: Nelson Bryant
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Keywords:
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gliding,
motion,
pools,
posed,
posing,
smooth,
stream,
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«Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.»
Author: John Dryden
(
Critic,
Dramatist,
Poet)
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About:
Beauty
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Keywords:
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footing,
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tread
«One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.»
«In the immutability of their surroundings the foreign shores, the foreign faces, the changing immensity of life, glide past, veiled not by a sense of mystery but by a slightly disdainful ignorance; for there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence and as inscrutable as Destiny.»
Author: Joseph Conrad
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Keywords:
disdainful,
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immensity,
immutability,
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seaman,
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shores,
slightly,
surroundings,
veiled
«All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.»
Author: Ovid
(
Author,
Poet)
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Keywords:
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changing,
constant,
extinguished,
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glide,
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onward,
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«Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.»
«When a friend is carried to his grave, we at once find excuses for every weakness, and palliations of every fault; we recollect a thousand endearments which before glided off our minds without impression, a thousand favors unrepaid, a thousand dutie»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(
Critic,
Poet,
Writer)
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Keywords:
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endearment,
endearments,
excuses,
favors,
glide,
glided,
glides,
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recollect,
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«Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(
Writer)
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Keywords:
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brand,
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