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pond
«Four ducks on a pond, / A grass-bank beyond, / A blue sky of spring, / White clouds on the wing: / What a little thing / To remember for years - / To remember with tears!»
Author: William Allingham
(Man of letter, Poet)
| Keywords:
bank, blue sky, ducks, on the wing, pond, ponds, the pond, wing
«It's hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn't own water skis or a snorkel.»
«Every sentence he manages to utter scatters its component parts like pond water from a verb chasing its own tail»
Author: Clive James
(Critic)
| Keywords:
chasing, component, components, manages, pond, scatters, verb
«Drop anchor anywhere and the anchor will drag - that is, if soul is a limitless, fathomless sea, and not a dog pond»
Author: Elbert Hubbard
| About:
Soul
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anchor, anchored, drag, drop anchor, fathomless, limitless, pond, ponds, the pond
«If thou would'st have that stream of hard-earn'd knowledge, of Wisdom heaven-born, remain sweet running waters, thou should'st not leave it to become a stagnant pond.»
«American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.»
«In Switzerland, on a high mountain, not far from Lucerne, there is a lake they call Pilate's Pond, which the Devil has fixed upon as one of the chief residences of his evil spirits»
Author: Martin Luther
(Priest, Scholar)
| Keywords:
lake, lucerne, not far, Pilate, pond, ponds, residence, residences, Switzerland, the pond
«It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to infer. But our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood, and always we are fishing up some wonderful article out of that pond; until, by and by, we begin to suspect that the biography of the one foolish person we know is, in reality, nothing less than the miniature paraphrase of the hundred volumes of the Universal History.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
article, Back To Reality, biography, by and by, despised, fishing, infer, inferred, infers, miniature, paraphrase, paraphrases, pond, recollections, rich person, tame, volumes