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«Though Cato lived, though Tully spoke, though Brutus dealt the godlike stroke, yet perished fated Rome»
«To me, the whole process of being a brush stroke in someone else's painting is a little difficult»
«The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh; but the stroke of the tongue breaketh bones.»
«We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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blades, double-edged, edged, strap, strapped, straps, stroke, The Return, whet, whets, whetted, whetting
«The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget. And a man who has a few friends, or one who has a dozen (if there be any one so wealthy on this earth), cannot forget on how precarious a base his happiness reposes; and how by a stroke or two of fate /a death, a few light words, a piece of stamped paper, a woman's bright eyes /he may be left, in a month, destitute of all.»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
(Author, Essayist, Poet)
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agreeable, Bright Eyes, destitute, destitute of, dozen, flexibility, precarious, reposes, stamped, stroke, two dozen, wealthy, wealthy man
«We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never-so-little scar.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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Fates, leaves, scar, smallest, spinning, spins, spin out, spun, stroke, stroked, The Strokes, undid, undoes, undone, vice
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