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precipices
«There are few situations in life that cannot be resolved promptly, and to the satisfaction of all concerned, by either suicide, a bag of gold, or thrusting a despised antagonist over a precipice on a dark night»
Author: Ernest Bramah
| Keywords:
antagonist, antagonists, bag, despised, precipice, precipices, promptly, resolved, situations, thrusting
«In battle, in the forest, at the precipice in the mountains, On the dark great sea, in the midst of javelins and arrows, In sleep, in confusion, in the depths of shame, The good deeds a man has done before defend him»
Author: Bhagavad Gita
| Keywords:
arrows, confusion, depths, forest, Great Sea, in the midst, javelin, javelins, midst, precipice, precipices, sleep in
«The river seeking for the seaConfronts the dam and precipice,Yet knows it cannot fail or miss;You will be what you will to be!»
Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
| Keywords:
confronts, dam, dammed, dams, dam up, precipice, precipices, The River
«Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.»
Author: Logan Pearsall Smith
(Writer)
| Keywords:
blooms, double talk, Edge of, meanings, pluck, precipice, precipices, rarest, razor, Razors, razor edge
«So you are lean and mean and resourceful and you continue to walk on the edge of the precipice because over the years you have become fascinated by how close you can walk without losing your balance.»
Author: Richard M. Nixon
(President)
| Keywords:
fascinated, precipice, precipices, resourceful, walk-on
«He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect, that he must himself sink in like manner, and, as he stands upon the same precipice, be swept away with the same violence»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Manners,
Violence
| Keywords:
gulf, Gulf of, obscurity, precipice, precipices, predecessors, pushing, push away, sink, sink in, swept, Swept Away
«Desire is storm, greed is whirlpool, pride is precipice, attachment is avalanche, ego is volcano. Discard desire and you are liberated.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
avalanche, avalanches, precipice, precipices
«If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt; but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
| About:
Adventure,
Risk-taking
| Keywords:
aged, beard, depressed, faded, fatalistic, goat, no doubt, plucking, precipices, The Wild, trembling, wild goat
«In each age men of genius undertake the ascent. From below, the world follows them with their eyes. These men go up the mountain, enter the clouds, disappear, reappear, People watch them, mark them. They walk by the side of precipices. They daringly pursue their road. See them aloft, see them in the distance; they are but black specks. On they go. The road is uneven, its difficulties constant. At each step a wall, at each step a trap. As they rise the cold increases. They must make their ladder, cut the ice and walk on it., hewing the steps in haste. A storm is raging. Nevertheless they go forward in their madness. The air becomes difficult to breath. The abyss yawns below them. Some fall. Others stop and retrace their steps; there is a sad weariness. The bold ones continue. They are eyed by the eagles; the lightning plays about them: the hurricane is furious. No matter, they persevere.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
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