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sullen
«There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.»
Author: Edward Hoagland
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absorbing, adolescence, fugue, fugues, height, In the City, middle age, retrenchment, retrenchments, sullen, The City
«A free-enterprise economy depends only on markets, and according to the most advanced mathematical macroeconomic theory, markets depend only on moods: specifically, the mood of the men in the pinstripes, also known as the Boys on the Street. When the Boys are in a good mood, the market thrives; when they get scared or sullen, it is time for each one of us to look into the retail apple business.»
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
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advanced, also known as, apple, enterprise, for each one, free enterprise, Free market, known as, look into, markets, mathematical, mood, moods, One of Us, pinstripe, pinstripes, retail, retailing, specifically, sullen, The Boys, the market
«Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.»
Author: Willa Sibert Cather
(Author)
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hangs, Long Winter, old country, shabbier, shabby, sullen, towns
«We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
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bounds, guardian, guardian angel, resigned, sighs, sullen
«Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
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cheerful, cheerfulness, endurance, preserve, sad, sullen, wondrous
«Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in their inmost brain feeling the crushing wheels, they rise, they write the bitter words of stern philosophy and knead the bread of knowledge with tears and groans.»
«The selfish smiling fool, and the sullen frowning fool, shall be both thought wise, that they may be a rod.»
«No longer mourn for me when I am deadThan you shall hear the surly sullen bellGive warning to the world that I am fledFrom this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell.»
«Haply I think on thee, and then my state,Like to the lark at break of day arisingFrom sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate;For thy sweet love remembered such wealth bringsThat then I scorn to change my state with kings.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
arising, break of day, gate, haply, hymn, hymns, lark, larks, My state, remembered, scorn, sings, state change, sullen, The Larks