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«I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen and sixteen hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.»
Author: Mario Cuomo
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Keywords:
bleed,
bottoms,
callus,
calluses,
eloquence,
fifteen,
literally,
simple language,
sixteen,
thick,
uneducated,
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«The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness.»
«The elephant has a thick skin, a head full of ivory, and as everyone who has seen a circus parade knows, proceeds best by grasping the tail of its predecessor.»
Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
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Ambassador,
Governor,
Politician)
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About:
Animals
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Keywords:
circus,
elephant,
ivory,
parade,
predecessor,
proceeds,
The Circus,
The Elephant,
thick,
thick skin
«Plunge boldly into the thick of life!»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Dramatist,
Novelist,
Playwright,
Poet)
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Keywords:
boldly,
plunge,
plunged,
plunges,
plunging,
thick,
thickest,
thick with
«Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.»
Author: John Lennon
(
Political activist,
Singer,
Songwriter)
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Keywords:
all right,
disciples,
his disciples,
ruins,
The Twist,
thick,
thickest,
thick with,
twisting,
twists
«The olive-grove of Academe, / Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird / Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long.»
Author: John Milton
(
Historian,
Poet,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
academe,
attic,
grove,
In a Grove,
olive,
Plato,
retirement,
thick,
Trilling,
Trills,
warble,
warbled,
warbling
«Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.»
«Some (demons) are also in the thick black clouds, which cause hail, lightning and thunder, and poison the air, the pastures and grounds»
Author: Martin Luther
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Priest,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
demons,
grounds,
hail,
hailed,
hailing,
hails,
lightning,
pastures,
thick,
thunder
«Plaster thick, some will stick.»
«Look, how the floor of heavenIs thick inlaid with patines of bright gold;There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'stBut in his motion like an angel sings ...Such harmony is in immortal souls;But, whilst this muddy vesture of decayDoth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.»