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subduing
«It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it.»
Author: James Agee
(Critic, Writer)
| About:
Luck,
Photography
| Keywords:
hook, lie in, peculiar, photographer, stream, subduing, unfair
«Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding.»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
addresses, affections, captivated, captivates, captivating, eloquence, hearer, hearers, high-pitched, pitch, subduing
«PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by pressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
impenitent, keys, operated, parlor, parlors, piano, pressing, subduing, The Machine, utensil, utensils, visitor
«Perfect wisdom has four parts, viz., wisdom, the principle of doing things aright; justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private; fortitude, the principle of not flying danger, but meeting it; and temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| About:
Wisdom
| Keywords:
aright, equally, fleeing, flees, fortitude, in public, meeting, parts, private parts, subdues, subduing, temperance
«Subduing my ego, I have enshrined the Lord within my mind. I focus my consciousness on the Guru's Feet forever.»
«By Guru's Grace, intuitive understanding is obtained; subduing the sense of duality, they are in love with the One.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
| Keywords:
duality, guru, intuitive, intuitive understanding, subduing
