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«I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen and sixteen hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.»
Author: Mario Cuomo
| Keywords:
bleed, bottoms, callus, calluses, eloquence, fifteen, literally, simple language, sixteen, thick, uneducated, watched
«The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness.»
Author: John Keats
(Poet)
| About:
Imagination
| Keywords:
ferment, fermented, mature, sighted, thence, thick, thickest, uncertain, undecided, way of life
«The elephant has a thick skin, a head full of ivory, and as everyone who has seen a circus parade knows, proceeds best by grasping the tail of its predecessor.»
Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
(Ambassador, Governor, Politician)
| About:
Animals
| Keywords:
circus, elephant, ivory, parade, predecessor, proceeds, The Circus, The Elephant, thick, thick skin
«Plunge boldly into the thick of life!»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
boldly, plunge, plunged, plunges, plunging, thick, thickest, thick with
«Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.»
Author: John Lennon
(Political activist, Singer, Songwriter)
| Keywords:
all right, disciples, his disciples, ruins, The Twist, thick, thickest, thick with, twisting, twists
«The olive-grove of Academe, / Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird / Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long.»
«Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
| Keywords:
draws, self-loving, self love, thick, thickest, thick with, veil
«Some (demons) are also in the thick black clouds, which cause hail, lightning and thunder, and poison the air, the pastures and grounds»
