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«If a man wishes to be sure of the road he treads on, he must close his eyes and walk in the dark.»
«I feel like one / Who treads alone / Some banquet-hall deserted, / Whose lights are fled, / Whose garlands dead / And all but he departed!»
«Here Greek and Roman find themselves alive along these crowded shelves; and Shakespeare treads again his stage, and Chaucer paints anew his age.»
«Anger and Folly walk cheek-by-jole; Repentance treads on both their Heels.»
«A brahmachari is he, who tries to attain enlightenment while he is alive and aspires for 'salvation' after his death. He incessantly makes efforts to improve upon his intellect and knowledge and to treads on the path of truth. Quite naturally gods are pleased by him and dwell in his heart.»
Author: Atharva Veda | Keywords: incessantly, treads
«Life treads on life, and heart on heart: We press too close in church and mart, To keep a dream or grave apart»
«Holy must be the man who treads - the incensed shrine within: and holy is that man alone - whose soul is free from sin»
Author: Greek proverb | Keywords: incensed, shrine, treads
«In the sacred precinct of that dwelling where the despotic woman wields the sceptre of fierce neatness, one treads as if he carried his life in his hands»
«A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes.»
«But, good my brother, do not, as some ungracious pastors do. Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven whilst like a puffed and reckless libertine himself the primrose path of dalliance treads and wrecks not his own.»