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«A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.»
Author: James Dickey
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Poetry
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«I can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic world today than love and laughter. Too many of the young have forgotten how to laugh, and too many of the elders have forgotten how to love. Would not our lives be lightened if only we could all learn to laugh more easily at ourselves and to love one another.»
«More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.»
Author: Thomas Traherne
(Mystic, Poet)
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«Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
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«And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.»
«And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, the next day they lightened the ship; / And the third day we cast out with our own hands the tackling of the ship.»
«No loss by flood and lightening, no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of so many noble lives and impulses as those which his intolerance has destroyed»
Author: Helen Keller
(Author, Educator)
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«It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.»
«Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties.»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
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Friendship
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anxieties, brighter, lightened, lightening, lightens, lighten up, prosperity, sharing