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Letter "R" » rays
«Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.»
«The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
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Lawyer,
Philosopher)
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About:
Understanding
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Keywords:
distorting,
distorts,
false,
irregularly,
mingles,
mingling,
mirror,
rayed,
rays,
receiving,
The Nature of Things,
X ray
«Rays from the sunrise drew forth the buds and stretched them into long stalks, lifted up sap in noiseless streams, opened petals, and sucked out scents in invisible jets and breathings.»
Author: Thomas Hardy
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Novelist,
Poet)
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Keywords:
breathings,
buds,
Drew,
jets,
lifted,
noiseless,
rays,
scents,
stalked,
stalking,
stalks,
streams,
stretched,
sucked
«Time, the steed, runs with seven reins (rays), thousand-eyed, ageless, rich in seed. The seers, thinking holy thoughts, mount him, all the beings (worlds) are his wheels.»
«O sun, take away their sight; O rays, run after them; clinging to their feet, fasten yourselves upon them, when the strength of their arms is gone!»
«The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.»
«What a great discrepancy there is between men and the results they achieve! It is due to the difference in their power of calling together all the rays of their ability, and concentrating them upon one point»
«When you come right down to it all you have is yourself. The sun is a thousand rays in your belly. All the rest is nothing.»
Author: Pablo Picasso
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Artist,
Painter)
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About:
Right
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Keywords:
a thousand,
bellied,
bellies,
belly,
rayed,
rays,
right-down,
sun,
The Sun,
thousand,
to it,
X ray
«There lived a Parsee from whose hat the rays of the sun were reflected in more-than-oriental splendour.»
«Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and imprison the rays of the sun»