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«As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a mountain stream, the great door, that does not look like a door, opens.»
Author: Stephen Graham | Keywords: forest, hillside, legged, prone, sprawl, sprawled, sprawling, stream, wet
«The rainy Pleiads wester, / Orion plunges prone, / The stroke of midnight ceases, / And I lie down alone.»
Author: A. E. Housman (Poet, Scholar) | Keywords: ceases, lie down, midnight, Orion, plunges, prone, rainy, stroke, wester
«I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.»
Author: Rene Descartes (Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist) | Keywords: amazed, prone
«How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!»
Author: Alexander Pope (Poet) | Keywords: cautious, prone
«It is because men are prone to be partial towards those they love, unjust to those they hate, servile to those above them, and either harsh or overindulgent to those below them in station, poverty or distress, that it is difficult to find anyone capa»
Author: Confucius | Keywords: distress, harsh, harsher, partial, prone, servile, The Station, unjust
«Men prone to tears are good»
Author: Greek proverb | Keywords: prone
«The American, in other words, thinks that the sinner has no rights that any one is bound to respect, and he is prone to mistake an unsupported charge of sinning, provided it be made violently enough, for actual proof and confession»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken (Critic, Journalist) | About: America and Americans | Keywords: actual sin, confession, in other words, prone, sinner, sinning, unsupported, violently
«Among all the world's races ... Americans are the most prone to misinformation. This is not a consequence of any special preference for mendacity.... It is rather that so much of what they themselves believe is wrong.»
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith | Keywords: mendacity, misinformation, preference, prone
«The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.»
Author: Plutarch (Author, Biographer) | Keywords: prone, The First Evil
«It is significant to note that those who live on vegetarian food are less prone to diseases, whereas non-vegetarians are subject to more diseases. Why? Because animal food is incompatible with the needs of the human body.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba (Spiritual leader) | Keywords: diseases, human body, incompatible, live on, note, prone, significant, subject to, the human body, vegetarian, Vegetarians
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