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«Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence.»
Author: Bill Hybels
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Dignity
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diligence, float, manufactured, purchased, reserved
«Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time»
Author: John Lubbock
(Biologist, Politician)
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Rest
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across, by no means, clouds, float, floated, grass, idleness, listening, murmur, murmurs, summer, summers, That Summer, The Clouds, waste of time, watching
«I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck»
Author: Stanley Baldwin
(Politician, Prime Minister)
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Principles
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float, neck, opportunist, opportunists
«Fling out the Anti-Slavery flag;Forever let it beThe emblem to a holy cause,The banner of the free.And never from its guardian heightLet it by man be driven,But let it float forever there,Beneath the smiles of heaven.»
«I touch her hair. Her shoulders clench together and she stares at the ground. She looks like a stone bird. I am an iceberg. Everyday I float farther and farther out to sea. But that can't be. An iceberg feels no pain. An iceberg doesn't feel cold. I feel cold. I feel distant. There is no one. There is nothing. That's where I am. She won't look me in the eye anymore since I asked if I could kiss her. Even wanting turns her cold.»
«..fiery yearnings their own phantom-futures make, and deem it present. So, after all these fearful, fainting trances, the verdict be, the golden haven was not gained - - yet, in bold quest thereof, better to sink in boundless deeps, than float on vulgar shoals; and give me, ye gods, an utter wreck, if wreck I do.»
«Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement: but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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angling, fishing, fish stick, float, fly fishing
«Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.»
Author: W. C. Fields
(Actor, Comic)
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downstream, fish, float, floated, How to swim, one to, swam, swim, upstream