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«All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.»
«Friends are like fiddle strings; they must not be screwed too tight.»
Author: H. G. Bohn | About: Friends | Keywords: fiddle, fiddled, fiddles, fiddling, screwed, strings, tight
«It may be that we are puppets-puppets controlled by the strings of society. But at least we are puppets with perception, with awareness. And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation.»
«There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.»
«IT IS A GOOD THING TO GIVE THANKS UNTO THE LORD, AND TO SING PRAISES UNTO THY NAME, O MOST HIGH: / To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night, / Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon the harp with a solemn sound.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: give thanks, harp, psaltery, solemn, strings
«I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: praises, psaltery, strings
«LYRE, n. An ancient instrument of torture. The word is now used in a figurative sense to denote the poetic faculty, as in the following fiery lines of our great poet, Ella Wheeler Wilcox:I sit astride Parnassus with my lyre, And pick with care the disobedient wire. That stupid shepherd lolling on his crook With deaf attention scarcely deigns to look. I bide my time, and it shall come at length, When, with a Titan's energy and strength, I'll grab a fistful of the strings, and O, The word shall suffer when I let them go! --Farquharson Harris»
«Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life - there, if one must speak out, the real man.»
Author: Marcus Aurelius | Keywords: strings
«A woman drew her long black hair out tight / And fiddled whisper music on those strings / And bats with baby faces in the violet light / Whistled.»
«Taxes should be continued by annual or biennial reenactments; because a constant hold by the nation of the strings of the public purse is a salutary restraint from which an honest government ought not to wish nor a corrupt one to be permitted to be f»

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