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sieve
«The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car? a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little.»
«I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it.»
«His answer trickled through my head - Like water through a sieve»
Author: Lewis Carroll
(Logician, Mathematician, Novelist, Photographer)
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sieve, trickle, trickled, trickles, trickling
«For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.»
«Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire: / And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.»
«The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.»
Author: Buddha
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Speech
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after a fashion, fashioned, fashioning, grain, out of fashion, sieve, sift, sifted, sifting, speech