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The Fleet
«Every day has been so short, every hour so fleeting, every minute so filled with the life I love that time for me has fled on too swift a wing.»
«Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.»
Author: Christopher Morley
| About:
Beauty,
Grief,
Pain
| Keywords:
fleeting, fleets, plain, souvenir, Souvenirs, The Fleet, The Lonely, The Visitors, visitor
«So, often in the courseOf life's few fleeting years,A single pleasure costsThe soul a thousand tears.»
Author: Francis William Bourdillon
| Keywords:
a thousand, costs, course, fleeting, fleets, The Fleet
«To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.»
Author: Henri Cartier-Bresson
(Photographer)
| Keywords:
breath, capture, converge, converged, converges, converging, faculties, fleeting, fleets, image, intellectual, mastering, photograph, precise, The Fleet
«West of these out to seas colder than the Hebrides I must go, / Where the fleet of stars is anchored and the young star-captains glow.»
«Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquility of a lovely sunset.»
Author: Ann Landers
(Advice columnist)
| Keywords:
brilliance, comet, Comets, fleeting, fleets, lovelier, lovely, marriage, pleasures, sensual, sunset, sunsets, The Fleet, tranquility
«All in the Downs the fleet was moored, / The streamers waving in the wind, / When black-eyed Susan came aboard.»
«Child of the pure, unclouded brow And dreaming eyes of wonder! Though time be fleet and I and thou Are half a life asunder, Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy tale»
Author: Lewis Carroll
(Logician, Mathematician, Novelist, Photographer)
| Keywords:
asunder, brow, brows, dreaming, fairy, fairy tale, fleet, fleetest, fleets, hail, hailed, hailing, hails, Half a Life, half time, surely, tale, The Brow, The Fleet, unclouded
«Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
| About:
Glory
| Keywords:
fleeting, fleets, glory, obscurities, obscurity, The Fleet