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«A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects»
«A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.»
Author: Lewis Mumford
(Writer)
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contemplation, poverty-stricken, Sight and Sound, stricken, succession, The Search
«I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing; but the average human mind and spirit are confusing beyond measure. Sometimes I think that all our learning is the little learning of the maxim. To laugh at a Roman awe-stricken in a sacred grove is to laugh at something today.»
Author: Wallace Stevens
(Poet)
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awe, beyond measure, confusing, fine art, fine arts, grove, Heads or Tails, human head, In a Grove, maxim, roman, stricken, tail
«And it came to pass a long time after that the LORD had given rest unto Israel from all their enemies round about, that Joshua waxed old and stricken in age.»
«And Joshua called for all Israel, and for their elders, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers, and said unto them, I am old and stricken in age: / And ye have seen all that the LORD your God hath done unto all these nations because of you; for the LORD your God is he that hath fought for you.»
«And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were now well stricken in years.»
«And Zacharias said unto the angel, Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife well stricken in years.»
«He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.»
«For she is a fair maiden, fairest lady of a house of queens. And yet I know not how I should speak of her. When I first looked on her and perceived her unhappiness, it seemed to me that I saw a white flower standing straight and proud, shapely as a lily, and yet knew that it was hard, as if wrought by elf-wrights out of steel. Or was it, maybe, a frost that had turned its sap to ice, and so it stood, bitter-sweet, still fair to see, but stricken, soon to fall and die?»