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«There is no brilliant single stroke that is going to transform the water into wine or straw into gold.»
«The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.»
«The rainy Pleiads wester, / Orion plunges prone, / The stroke of midnight ceases, / And I lie down alone.»
«The art of newspaper paragraphing is / to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.»
Author: Don Marquis
(Columnist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Writer)
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epigram, paragraphing, paragraphs, platitude, purr, Purring, purrs, stroke
«The Republicans stroke platitudes until they purr like epigrams.»
Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
(Ambassador, Governor, Politician)
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epigrams, platitudes, purr, Purring, purrs, stroke
«Then Job answered and said, / Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.»
«The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers heard throughout nature.»
«The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, Which hurts and is desired.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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desired, hurts, lover, pinch, pinched, pinches, pinching, stroke, stroked, The Strokes