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The Clouds
«There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
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architecture, castle, clouded, clouding, clouds, Clouds The, cloud over, rules, Rules of, The Clouds
«Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time»
Author: John Lubbock
(Biologist, Politician)
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Rest
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across, by no means, clouds, float, floated, grass, idleness, listening, murmur, murmurs, summer, summers, That Summer, The Clouds, waste of time, watching
«The south-wind strengthens to a gale, / Across the moon the clouds fly fast, / The house is smitten as with a flail, / The chimney shudders to the blast.»
Author: Robert Bridges
(Physician, Poet)
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blast, chimney, chimneys, flail, flailing, gale, gales, shuddered, shuddering, shudders, smites, smiting, smitten, south wind, strengthens, The Clouds, the South
«The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony.»
Author: Ruth Bernhard
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cosmic, dissolving, formations, possessing, radiant, radiant energy, The Clouds, walk-on
«There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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affairs, afloat, bound, clouds, current, flood, flood tide, folded, folding, fold up, man of affairs, miseries, omit, omits, omitted, omitting, shallows, The Clouds, The Current, The Flood, tide, voyage
«When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books, They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.»
«The current flows fast and furious. It issues in a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the politicians. Every day they tell us that we are a free people fighting to defend freedom. That is the current that has whirled the young airman up into the sky and keeps him circulating there among the clouds. Down here, with a roof to cover us and a gas mask handy, it is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
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airman, bags, circulate, circulated, circulates, circulating, come in handy, flows, free people, furious, handier, Handy, issues, mask, puncture, punctured, punctures, roof, spate, The Clouds, The Current, The Seeds, whirled, whirling, whirls
«Thus we play the fool with the time and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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clouds, mock, sit in, spirits, The Clouds, The Fool, thus
«That, if then I had waked after a long sleep, will make me sleep again; and then, in dreaming, the clouds me thought would open and show riches ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked I cried to dream again.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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clouds, cried, dreaming, drop, if then, Open and, ready, riches, The Clouds, waked