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«The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it»
«Savor sufficient to lure the wispiest ghost into corpulence.»
Author: Israel Shenker | Keywords: corpulence, ghost, lure
«The rise of computer crime and armed robbery has not eliminated the lure of caged cash.»
«Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.»
«In time the savage bull sustains the yoke, / In time all haggard hawks will stoop to lure. / In time small wedges cleave the hardest oak, / In time the flint is pierced with softest shower.»
«Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.»
«The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.»
«PARDON, v. To remit a penalty and restore to the life of crime. To add to the lure of crime the temptation of ingratitude.»
«To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence. He is struggling against vagueness, against obscurity, against the lure of the decorative adjective, against the encroachment of Latin and Greek, and, above all, against the worn-out phrases and dead metaphors with which the language is cluttered up.»