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«A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.»
Author: Washington Irving
(Writer)
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Mothers
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«All sunshine makes the desert»
Author: Arabian Proverb
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desert
«And there?s others like taxidermist! You can?t just go, ?Oh, I was just working at the chip shop, and I just started stuffing animals with sand,? you know? You?ve gotta want to be! ?I want to be a taxidermist! I wanna fill animals with sand. (mimes stuffing an animal) I wanna get more sand into an animal than anybody has ever bloody got in one. I wanna fill a rat with the entire Gobi Desert, so it?s really quite tight.?»
«Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.»
«A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.»
Author: Washington Irving
(Writer)
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Family
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brothers, Brothers and Sisters, desert, endures, husbands, inveterate, Mother Love, sisters, wives
«As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
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Big cities, Big City, city, desert, nowadays, remedy, suggest, the Big
«Again and again I am brought up against it, and again and again I resist it: I don't want to believe it, even though it is almost palpable: the vast majority lack an intellectual conscience; indeed, it often seems to me that to demand such a thing is to be in the most populous cities as solitary as in the desert.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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again and again, cities, demand, desert, intellectual, most populous, palpable, populous, resist, solitary, vast
«A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses»
«Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you, or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Politicians
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desert, oases, oasis, parasite, politician, zealous
«A person might be an expert in any field of knowledge or a master of many material skills and accomplishments. But without inner cleanliness his brain is a desert waste.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
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accomplishments, cleanliness, desert, deserting, expert, field, material, skills, Through the Desert