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contract
«When an apparent miracle happened.it proved divine mission to the credulous, and proved a contract with the devil to the skeptical.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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apparent, contract, credulous, mission, proved, skeptical
«When God at first made man, / Having a glass of blessings standing by, / Let us (said he) pour on him all we can: / Let the world's riches, which dispers?d lie, / Contract into a span.»
«The way in which men cling to old institutions after the life has departed out of them, and out of themselves, reminds me of those monkeys which cling by their tails -- aye, whose tails contract about the limbs, even the dead limbs, of the forest, and they hang suspended beyond the hunter's reach long after they are dead. It is of no use to argue with such men. They have not an apprehensive intellect, but merely, as it were a prehensile tail.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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apprehensive, as it were, Aye, cling, cling to, contract, departed, hunter, limbs, Monkeys, prehensile, reminds, suspended, tails, The Hunter
«We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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contract, expand