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«God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
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God
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conscience, deaf, deaf to, megaphone, pains, pain and pleasure, pleasures, pleasuring, rouse, rouses, rousing, shouts, shout out, speaks, The Whisper, whispers
«Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.»
Author: William Ellery Channing
(Author, Clergyman)
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Difficulty
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discourage, rouse, rouses, rousing
«The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently, and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken»
«Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
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a hundred, a hundred times, correct, good sense, gratuitous, guilty, impose, infamies, infamy, inflicted, inflicting, nay, nays, not guilty, piece, punishment, rebellion, rouse, rouses, rousing, The Victim, victim
«It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
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boldness, roused, rouses, rousing
«Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.»
«Up the two terrace flights of steps the rain ran wildly, and beat at the great door, like a swift messenger rousing those within; . . .»
«Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks. Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam.»
«Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.»
«The blood more stirsTo rouse a lion than to start a hare!»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
hare, rouse, rouses, rousing, stirs
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