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Letter "M" » mists
«To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feelthe breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept up and down the surf lines of the continents for untold thousands of year, to see the running of the old eels and the young shad to the sea, is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly eternal as any earthly life can be.»
Author: Rachel Carson
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Keywords:
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Eels,
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«Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.»
Author: Robert Motherwell
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About:
Beauty
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Keywords:
mist,
mists,
mist over,
rainbow,
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The Mist,
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«Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books, a distant memory of an offshore island, lost in the mists of time like Camelot, remembered kindly for its noble past.»
«The time draws near the birth of Christ: The moon is hid; the night is still; The Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer each other in the mist»
«When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes»
Author: C.S. Lewis
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Novelist,
Scholar)
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About:
Catholicism,
Protestantism
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Keywords:
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The Mist,
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«The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.»