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Letter "G" » glides
«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.»
«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
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Critic,
Poet,
Writer)
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Keywords:
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endearment,
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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
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Writer)
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Keywords:
anodyne,
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antidote,
brand,
glide,
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«When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with such applause in the lecture room, how soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick; Till rising and gliding out, I wandered off by myself, in the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, looked up in perfect silence at the stars.»
Author: Walt Whitman
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Poet)
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Keywords:
applause,
astronomer,
astronomers,
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from time to time,
glide,
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lecture,
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moist,
mystical,
rising,
unaccountable,
wandered
«Still glides the Stream, and shall for ever glide;The Form remains, the Function never dies.»