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lamenting
«When thou has truly thanked the Lord for every blessing sent, But little time will then remain for murmur or lament»
«There has never been an age that did not applaud the past and lament the present»
Author: Lilian Eichler Watson
| About:
Age
| Keywords:
An Age, applaud, applauding, applauds, lament, lamenting
«The waters wild went o'er his child, / And he was left lamenting.»
Author: Thomas Campbell
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lamenting
«PLUNDER, v. To take the property of another without observing the decent and customary reticences of theft. To effect a change of ownership with the candid concomitance of a brass band. To wrest the wealth of A from B and leave C lamenting a vanishing opportunity.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
brass band, brass bands, concomitance, lamenting, observing, reticence, reticences, vanishing, wrest, wrested
«The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
| About:
Life,
Reputation
| Keywords:
contemptible, deprive, deprives, grave, lamented, lamenting, The Grave, weakest, weapon, whisper
«Then indecision brings its own delays,And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days.Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute;What you can do, or dream you can, begin it;Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Dreams,
Indecision
| Keywords:
as if by magic, Begin, boldness, brings, can-do, days, delaying, delays, earnest, genius, indecision, in earnest, lamenting, lost, magic, minute, seize, seize on, seizing, with boldness
«Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
indecision, lamenting
«So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss, / Which sucks two souls, and vapours both away,/ Turn thou ghost that way, and let me turn this, / And let our selves benight our happiest day.»
Author: John Donne
| Keywords:
benight, breaking away, breaking off, break away, break off, ghost, lamenting, selves, so-so, sucks, vapours
