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at length
«If you go over desert and mountain,Far into the country of Sorrow,To-day and to-night and to-morrow,And maybe for months and for years;You shall come with a heart that is burstingFor trouble and toiling and thirsting,You shall certainly come to the fountainAt length, -- to the Fountain of Tears.»
Author: Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy
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at length, bursting, come with, fountain, go over, morrow, The Fountain, thirsting, toiling
«In this awfully stupendous manner, at which Reason stands aghast, and Faith herself is half confounded, was the grace of God to man at length manifested»
Author: Richard Hurd
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God
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aghast, at length, awfully, confounded, grace of God, manifested
«A long train of these practices has at length unwillingly convinced me that there is something behind the throne greater than the King himself»
«I hope... that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats; for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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Mankind
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at length, cutting, cuttings, differences, difference of opinion, length, reasonable, settle, throats
«At length I heard a ragged noise and mirth/ Of thieves and murderers: there I him espied,/ Who straight, `Your suit is granted,' said, and died.»
«I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a long time a subject which possessed me, a model which inspired me, a predecessor who attracted me, until at length, after I had molded it»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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Poetry
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attracted, at length, cherished, poetic, predecessor
«He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time till at length it becomes habitual.»