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«Rain hangs about the place, like a friendly ghost. if it's not coming down in delicate droplets, then it's in buckets; and if neither, it tends to lurk suspiciously in the atmosphere.»
Author: Barbara Acton-Bond
| Keywords:
atmosphere, buckets, droplet, droplets, ghost, hangs, lurk, suspiciously, tends to
«Men hang out their signs indicative of their respective trades: shoemakers hang out a gigantic shoe; jewelers, a monster watch; and the dentist hangs out a gold tooth; but up in the mountains of New Hampshire, God Almighty has hung out a sign to show»
Author: Daniel Webster
(Orator, Senator, Statesman)
| About:
God,
Profession and professionals
| Keywords:
Almighty, gigantic, God Almighty, Hampshire, hangs, hang out, hung, indicative, indicative of, monster, New Hampshire, respective, shoe, shoemaker, shoemakers, tooth, trades
«Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.»
Author: John Dewey
(Educator, Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
compelled, compromises, hangs, logical, record, reserves, surrender
«There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former. The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace. Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| Keywords:
bring forth, continued, hangs, incident, incidents, link, sagacity, trace, transition, unconnected
«Our whole knowledge of the world hangs on this very slender thread: the re-gu-la-ri-ty of our experiences»
Author: Luigi Pirandello
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| Keywords:
hangs, slender, The Re, thread
«One yearns unspeakably for a composer who gives out his pair of honest themes, and then develops them unashamed, and then hangs a brisk coda to them, and then shuts up»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
brisk, coda, hangs, unashamed, unspeakably
«Man thinks himself that he knows everything but, when asked about himself, he hangs down his head in shame.»
«Merrily, merrily shall I live now,Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
blossom, bough, hangs, merrily