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«We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.»
Author: H. P Lovecraft
(Author)
| About:
Civilization,
Humanity,
Ignorance,
Intelligence,
Science
| Keywords:
Infinities, infinity, in the midst, island, live on, meant, midst, placid, seas, voyage
«If I weren't reasonably placid, I don't think I could cope with this sort of life. To be a diva, you've got to be absolutely like a horse.»
«Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian -- ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.»
Author: Lytton Strachey
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clarified, clarifies, clarifying, historian, omit, omits, omitting, placid, requisite, selects, simplifies
«He lowered the window, and looked out at the rising sun. There was a ridge of ploughed land, with a plough upon it where it had been left last night when the horses were unyoked; beyond, a quiet coppice-wood, in which many leaves of burning red and golden yellow still remained upon the trees. Though the earth was cold and wet, the sky was clear, and the sun rose bright, placid, and beautiful.»
Author: Charles Dickens
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coppice, lowered, placid, plough, ploughed, remained, ridge, ridges, Rising Sun, sun rose, The Rising
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