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«Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.»
«Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly, with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession»
«As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.»
«I paint paintings because I can't get the experience in any other way but there are many more experiences that are equally satisfying to me and equally inept at answering all my questions, but hover in exactitude in describing themselves and defying me to define their logic.»
«Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.»
«. . . a businessman's candidate, hovering around the status quo like a sick kitten around a hot brick.»
«A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.»
«Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.»
«Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.»
«Fair is foul, and foul is fair:Hover through the fog and filthy air.»

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