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Letter "G" » glimpse
«In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking but now, God knows, anything goes.»
«For a moment of night we have a glimpse of ourselves and of our world islanded in a stream of stars - pilgrims of mortality, voyaging between horizons across the eternal seas of space and time»
«Home / that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings.»
«Have you ever gotten the feeling that you aren't completely embarassed yet, but you glimpse tomorrow's embarrassment?»
«How soon country people forget. When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like forever. As though there never was a time when they didn't love it. The minute they arrive at the train station or get off the ferry and glimpse the wide streets and the wasteful lamps lighting them, they know they are born for it. There, in a city, they are not so much new as themselves: their stronger, riskier selves.»
Author: Toni Morrison
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Editor,
Teacher,
Writer)
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Keywords:
arrive at,
ferry,
get off,
glimpse,
lamps,
lighting,
riskiest,
risky,
selves,
station,
train station,
wasteful
«As soon as by one's own propaganda even a glimpse of right on the other side is admitted, the cause for doubting one's own right is laid»
«Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.»
Author: Albert Camus
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Essayist,
Novelist,
Playwright)
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About:
Beauty
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Keywords:
despair,
drives,
eternity,
glimpse,
glimpsed,
glimpses,
minute,
offering,
stretch,
stretch out,
unbearable
«If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.»
«In religion, India is the only millionaire - the One land that all men desire to see, and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for all the shows of all the rest of the globe combined»
Author: Mark Twain
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Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
combined,
glimpse,
glimpses,
globe,
globes,
Globe and,
India,
millionaire,
The Globe
«Devotional singing induces in you a desire for experiencing the truth, to glimpse the beauty that is God, to taste the bliss that is the Self. It encourages man to dive into himself and be genuinely his real Self.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
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Spiritual leader)
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Keywords:
bliss,
devotional,
dive,
dives,
diving,
encourages,
experiencing,
genuinely,
glimpse,
glimpsed,
glimpses,
induces,
inducing,
singing,
taste,
the self