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«I believe that if I should die, and you were to walk near my grave, from the very depths of the earth I would hear your footsteps.»
«History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty and injustice and shortsightedness. There are monsters, there is evil, there is betrayal. That's why people should read Shakespeare and Dickens as well as history ~~ they will find the best, the worst, the height of noble attainment and the depths of depravity.»
Author: David C. McCullough
| About:
Books,
History,
Literature,
Reading
| Keywords:
attainments, betrayals, depravities, depths, heroes, monsters
«In battle, in the forest, at the precipice in the mountains, On the dark great sea, in the midst of javelins and arrows, In sleep, in confusion, in the depths of shame, The good deeds a man has done before defend him»
Author: Bhagavad Gita
| Keywords:
arrows, confusion, depths, forest, Great Sea, in the midst, javelin, javelins, midst, precipice, precipices, sleep in
«It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.»
Author: John Locke
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
depths, fathom, fathomed, fathoms, length, ocean, sailor
«Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart»
Author: Martin Luther
(Priest, Scholar)
| About:
Prayer
| Keywords:
depths, grant, may not, mouth, pray, take for granted
«In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may cause us to forget their existence, and the buried ones, or prisoners whom they hide. But sometimes, and oftenest at midnight, those dark receptacles are flung wide open. In an hour like this, when the mind has a passive sensibility, but no active strength; when the imagination is a mirror, imparting vividness to all ideas, without the power of selecting or controlling them; then pray that your grieves may slumber, and the brotherhood of remorse not break their chain.»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
active, break open, brotherhood, buried, chain, controlling, depths, dungeon, dungeons, flinging, flings, flung, grieves, imparting, imparts, lights, like this, midnight, oftenest, Open Wide, passive, prisoners, receptacle, receptacles, remorse, revelry, Selecting, sensibilities, sensibility, slumber, slumbered, slumbering, slumbers, The Brotherhood, vividness, wide-open, wide
«In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
depths, finally, invincible, In Me, summer, summers, That Summer, There was, The Invincible, winter, winters
«God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.»
«Failure is not fatal. Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. It should challenge us to new heights of accomplishments, not pull us to new depths of despair. From honest failure can come valuable experience.»
Author: William Arthur Ward
| Keywords:
accomplishments, challenge, depths, despair, fatal, heights, pull, The Undertaker, undertaker, undertakers, valuable
«I believe in the practice and philosophy of what we have agreed to call magic, and what I must call the evocation of spirits, though I do not know what they are, in the power of creating magic illusions in the visions of truth in the depths of the minds when the eyes are closed.»
Author: William Butler Yeats
(Dramatist, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
agreed, depths, evocation, Philosophy of, The Practice, visions
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