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Letter "O" » opening
«The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.»
«Tea! thou soft, sober, sage and venerable liquid;- thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wink-tippling cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate»
Author: Colley Cibber
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Actor,
Playwright)
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Keywords:
cordial,
insipidity,
liquid,
opening,
prostrate,
prostrated,
prostrates,
prostrating,
sage,
smoothing,
sober,
tipple,
tippled,
tippling,
venerable,
wink
«Traveling is not just seeing the new; it is also leaving behind. Not just opening doors; also closing them behind you, never to return. But the place you have left forever is always there for you to see whenever you shut your eyes.»
«We have achieved the most amazing things, a few million people opening up half a continent. But we have not yet found a Canadian soul except in time of war.»
«The meanest flowret of the vale, / The simplest note that swells the gale, / The common sun, the air, and skies, / To him are opening paradise.»
«The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.»
«We climbed up.until I finally saw through a round opening the beauteous things which Heaven holds. And there we came out to see, once more, the stars.»
«The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(
Critic,
Essayist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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About:
Mind
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Keywords:
As of,
mouth,
object,
opening,
openings,
shut,
shutting,
shut in,
solid,
solidest,
The Object of
«Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.»
Author: Robert Browning
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Poet)
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Keywords:
abides,
center,
effecting,
entries,
entry,
fullness,
imprisoned,
inmost,
Light Within,
opening,
outward,
splendor,
splendors,
whence
«Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.»