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The Tempest
«The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.»
Author: Epicurus
| About:
Adversity,
Overcoming
| Keywords:
difficulty, gain, glory, greater, pilots, reputation, skillful, storming, storms, surmount, surmounted, surmounting, tempests, The Tempest
«Me howling blasts drive devious, tempest-tossed, / Sails ripped, seams opening wide, and compass lost.»
«Reporter, n.: A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
dispels, guesses, reporter, tempest, tempests, The Tempest
«My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
haven, havens, resting, rest home, retreat, tempest, tempests, The Tempest
«The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
bends, calamities, elasticity, escapes, frivolous, loftier, oak, presence of mind, recover, resists, tempest, tempests, The Tempest, The Willows, willow, willows