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«Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.»
«The formula for a happy marriage? It's the same as the one for living in California: when you find a fault, don't dwell on it»
Author: Jay Trachman
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Marriage
| Keywords:
California, dwell, dwell on, fault, formula, formulas, marriage, on it, The Formula
«It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.»
«Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.»
«Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air and sea, and while the soul of Mozart seems to dwell on the ethereal peaks of Olympus, that of Beethoven climbs shuddering the storm-beaten sides of a Sinai. Blessed be they both! Each represents a moment of the ideal life, each does us good. Our love is due to both.»
Author: Henri Frederic Amiel
| About:
Music
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beaten, Beethoven, classic, dwell on, ethereal, grandeur, Mozart, Olympus, peaks, purity, represents, romantic, shuddered, shuddering, shudders, Sinai, storms, The Romantic
«So often we dwell on the things that seem impossible rather than on the things that are possible. So often we are depressed by what remains to be done and forget to be thankful for all that has been done.»
«It is the mark of a mean, vulgar and ignoble spirit to dwell on the thought of food before meal times or worse to dwell on it afterwards, to discuss it and wallow in the remembered pleasures of every mouthful. Those whose minds dwell before dinner on the spit, and after on the dishes, are fit only to be scullions.»
«The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
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dwell, dwelled, dwell on, greater, great powers, harm, harmed, harming, harms, longer, misfortunes, power
«The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.»
Author: Bible
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ascend, beast, behold, Book of, bottomless, dwell on, go into, perdition, pit, The Beast, The Book of Life, The Foundation, the pits
«Left to itself the masculine imagination has very little appreciation for the here and now; it prefers to dwell on what is absent, on what has been or may be. If men are more punctual than women, it is because they know that, without the external discipline of clock time, they would never get anything done.»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
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absent, appreciation, clock time, dwell on, here and now, masculine, prefers, punctual
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