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nightingale
«The heart is pure theater throbbing in its cage palpably as any nightingale.»
Author: Dr. Richard Selzer
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Heart
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cage, nightingale, nightingales, palpably, throbbing, throbs
«A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
(Poet)
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Poets
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cheer, in darkness, nightingale, nightingales, poet, sings, sits, sounds
«Disease an never be conquered, can never be quelled by emotion's willful screaming or faith's symbolic prayer. It can only be conquered by the energy of humanity and the cunning in the mind of man. In the patience of a Curie, in the enlightenment of a Faraday, a Rutherford, a Pasteur, a Nightingale, and all other apostles of light and cleanliness, rather than of a woebegone godliness, we shall find final deliverance from plague, pestilence, and famine.»
Author: Sean O'Casey
(Playwright)
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apostles, cleanliness, cunning man, Curie, deliverance, enlightenment, famine, Faraday, godliness, nightingale, nightingales, Pasteur, pestilence, plague, quell, quelled, Rutherford, screaming, symbolic, the Enlightenment, willful, woebegone
«EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom. Following are some of the more notable epigrams of the learned and ingenious Dr. Jamrach Holobom:We know better the needs of ourselves than of others. To serve oneself is economy of administration.In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.There are three sexes; males, females and girls.Beauty in women and distinction in men are alike in this: they seem to be the unthinking a kind of credibility.Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.While your friend holds you affectionately by both your hands you are safe, for you can watch both his.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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acerbity, acidity, administration, affectionately, characterize, credibility, diversity, Dr., Dr, Economy of, epigram, epigrams, females, nightingale, nightingales, notable, notables, pig, prose, safe sex, sexes, unequal, unthinking, verse
«In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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ass, diversity, due to, Human heart, nightingale, nightingales, pig, tiger, unequal, unequal to
«Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy. And before Buddha or Jesus spoke the nightingale sang, and long after the words of Jesus and Buddha are gone into oblivion the ni»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
brute, brute force, Buddha, crushes, daisy, nightingale, nightingales, oblivion, plants, pyramid, Pyramids, sang, spoke, The Pyramids
«It is a flaw / In happiness to see beyond our bourn, - / It forces us in summer skies to mourn, / It spoils the singing of the nightingale.»
«Can she sing? She's practically a Florence Nightingale.»
Author: Samuel Goldwyn
(Founder, Producer)
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Florence, Florence Nightingale, nightingale, practically
«No Nightingale did ever chant More welcome notes to weary bands Of travelers in some shady haunt, Among Arabian sands: A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard In spring-time from the Cuckoo-bird, Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebri»
Author: William Wordsworth
(Poet)
| Keywords:
Arabian, Arabians, chants, cuckoo, nightingale, shady, The Silence, thrilling
