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careless
«There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
| About:
Chance,
Emotion,
Heart
| Keywords:
by chance, careless, chance, depths, drops, emotion, full, full of life, gathered, Gathering The, gather in, gather up, ground, moments, overflowed, overflowing with, overflows, pebble, pebbled, shaken, shake up, spilling, spills, spilt, water
«Others live on in a careless and lukewarm state - not appearing to fill Longfellow's measure: 'Into each life, some rain must fall.'»
Author: Mary Todd Lincoln
(First Lady)
| Keywords:
appearing, careless, live on, Longfellow, lukewarm
«That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!»
«Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people that were therein, how they dwelt careless, after the manner of the Zidonians, quiet and secure; and there was no magistrate in the land, that might put them to shame in any thing; and they were far from the Zidonians, and had no business with any man.»
«R.I.P. A careless abbreviation of _requiescat in pace_, attesting to indolent goodwill to the dead. According to the learned Dr. Drigge, however, the letters originally meant nothing more than _reductus in pulvis_.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
abbreviation, attesting, attests, careless, dead letter, Dr., Dr
«The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.»