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The Sand

«Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone»
Author: Jorge Luis Borges (Essayist, Poet) | Keywords: sand, The Sand
«Like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed. I drew with a stick on the sand the diagrams of my motor. A thousand secrets of nature which I might have stumbled upon accidentally I would have given for that one which I had wrestled from her against all odds and at the peril of my existence.»
«One day, about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore, which was very plain to be seen in the sand.»
«Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand: Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!»
«Please don't ask me to do that which I've just said I'm not going to do, because you're burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.»
«Speak, speak, for underneath the cover thereThe sand is running from the upper glass,And when the last grain's through, I shall be lost.»
«O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea: / Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: bowels, gravel, offspring, The Sand
«Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noonday: I have caused him to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city.»
«Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: The Sand
«On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings.»

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