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«There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
architecture, castle, clouded, clouding, clouds, Clouds The, cloud over, rules, Rules of, The Clouds
«Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time»
Author: John Lubbock
(Biologist, Politician)
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Rest
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across, by no means, clouds, float, floated, grass, idleness, listening, murmur, murmurs, summer, summers, That Summer, The Clouds, waste of time, watching
«People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle.»
«There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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affairs, afloat, bound, clouds, current, flood, flood tide, folded, folding, fold up, man of affairs, miseries, omit, omits, omitted, omitting, shallows, The Clouds, The Current, The Flood, tide, voyage
«O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.»
«My land is bare of chattering folk; / the clouds are low along the ridges, / and sweet's the air with curly smoke / from all my burning bridges.»
«The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil water-way leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky--seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness.»
«Thus we play the fool with the time and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
clouds, mock, sit in, spirits, The Clouds, The Fool, thus
«Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud;Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun,And loathsome canker lies in sweetest bud.All men make faults.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
bud, budded, budding, canker, cankers, clouded, clouding, clouds, Clouds The, cloud over, eclipse, eclipsed, eclipses, eclipsing, faults, fountains, loathsome, moon, mud, roses, silver, silvering, stain, stains, sun, sun rose, sweetest, thorns
«That, if then I had waked after a long sleep, will make me sleep again; and then, in dreaming, the clouds me thought would open and show riches ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked I cried to dream again.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
clouds, cried, dreaming, drop, if then, Open and, ready, riches, The Clouds, waked
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