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«Everybody prays whether [you think] of it as praying or not. The odd silence you fall into when something very beautiful is happening or something very good or very bad. The ah-h-h-h! that sometimes floats up out of you as out of a Fourth of July crowd when the sky-rocket bursts over the water. The stammer of pain at somebody else s pain. The stammer of joy at somebody else's joy. Whatever words or sounds you use for sighing with over your own life. These are all prayers in their way. These are all spoken not just to yourself but»
Author: Frederick Buechner
(Author)
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bursts, crowd, fall into, floats, fourth, Fourth of July, happening, July, July 4, odd, prayers, praying, prays, rocket, rockets, sighing, Somebody else, sounds, spoken, stammer, stammering, The Rocket, The Water
«And when she ceased, we sighing saw / The floor lay paved with broken hearts.»
«By the time you swear you are his, shivering and sighing, And he vows his passion is infinite and undying- Lady, make a note of this: One of you is lying»
«Love is a sickness full of woes, / All remedies refusing; / A plant that with most cutting grows, / Most barren with best using. / Why so? / More we enjoy it, more it dies; / If not enjoyed, it sighing cries, / Hey ho.»
«Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die; / And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.»
Author: Bible
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come before, Neighbours, prisoner, reproached, sevenfold, sighing, wherewith
«For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.»
«But in the end one also has to understand that the needs that religion has satisfied and philosophy is now supposed to satisfy are not immutable; they can be weakened and exterminated. Consider, for example, that Christian distress of mind that comes from sighing over ones inner depravity and care for ones salvation -- all concepts originating in nothing but errors of reason and deserving, not satisfaction, but obliteration.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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concepts, depravities, depravity, deserving, distress, exterminate, exterminated, exterminates, exterminating, for example, immutable, obliteration, originating, satisfy, sighing
«Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat / Sighing through all her works gave signs of woe, / That all was lost.»
«A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.»
«But to go to school in a summer morn, Oh, it drives all joy away! Under a cruel eye outworn, The little ones spend the day in sighing and dismay»
Author: William Blake
(Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet)
| Keywords:
dismay, morn, sighing, summer school
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