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Letter "R" » receptacle
«A wife is essential to great longevity; she is the receptacle of half a man's cares, and two-thirds of his ill-humor»
«I have been photographing our toilet, that glossy enameled receptacle of extraordinary beauty. Here was every sensuous curve of the ''human figure divine'' but minus the imperfections. Never did the Greeks reach a more significant consummation to their culture, and it somehow reminded me, in the glory of its chaste convulsions and in its swelling, sweeping, forward movement of finely progressing contours, of the Victory of Samothrace.»
Author: Edward Weston
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Keywords:
chaste,
consummation,
convulsion,
convulsions,
curve,
enamel,
enameled,
finely,
glossy,
human culture,
photographing,
progressing,
receptacle,
receptacles,
sensuous,
swelling,
Their culture,
toilet
«A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind»
Author: John Cheever
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About:
Loneliness
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Keywords:
autumn,
bone,
copious,
gin,
gins,
heaved,
heaves,
heaving,
hotel,
hove,
receptacle,
receptacles,
sighs,
stooped
«And that's the world in a nutshell - an appropriate receptacle»
«He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and impure streams of thought; and as a wise householder commands his servants and invites his guests, so must he learn to command his desires and to say, with authority, what thoughts he shall admit into the mansion of his soul.»
Author: James Allen
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Statesman)
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Keywords:
beggarly,
commands,
guests,
householder,
impure,
invites,
mansion,
passive,
receptacle,
receptacles,
servants,
streams,
The Mansion,
The Negative,
with authority
«In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may cause us to forget their existence, and the buried ones, or prisoners whom they hide. But sometimes, and oftenest at midnight, those dark receptacles are flung wide open. In an hour like this, when the mind has a passive sensibility, but no active strength; when the imagination is a mirror, imparting vividness to all ideas, without the power of selecting or controlling them; then pray that your grieves may slumber, and the brotherhood of remorse not break their chain.»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(
Novelist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
active,
break open,
brotherhood,
buried,
chain,
controlling,
depths,
dungeon,
dungeons,
flinging,
flings,
flung,
grieves,
imparting,
imparts,
lights,
like this,
midnight,
oftenest,
Open Wide,
passive,
prisoners,
receptacle,
receptacles,
remorse,
revelry,
Selecting,
sensibilities,
sensibility,
slumber,
slumbered,
slumbering,
slumbers,
The Brotherhood,
vividness,
wide-open,
wide
«Memory is the receptacle and sheath of all knowledge»
«The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.»
Author: Pablo Picasso
(
Artist,
Painter)
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About:
Art,
Emotion
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Keywords:
all over,
paper,
passing,
receptacle,
receptacles,
scrap,
scraps,
shape,
spider,
spider web,
web,
webs
«The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles.»