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«Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.»
Author: Sydney J. Harris
(Author, Journalist)
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Curiosity
| Keywords:
drawn-out, drawn, indifference, pried, pry, prying
«Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood.»
«Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover.»
«And they drew out the staves of the ark, that the ends of the staves were seen from the ark before the oracle; but they were not seen without. And there it is unto this day.»
«Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down? / Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn? / Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee? / Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever? / Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens? / Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants? / Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears? / Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.»
«And they drew out the staves, that the ends of the staves were seen out in the holy place before the oracle, and they were not seen without: and there they are unto this day.»
«And ever, against eating cares, / Lap me in soft Lydian airs, / Married to immortal verse / Such as the meeting soul may pierce / In notes, with many a winding bout / Of link?d sweetness long drawn out.»
«One open way of speaking introduces another open way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
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discoveries, drawn-out, draws, introduces
«I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
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Art,
Music
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chord, chords, draw, drawing power, drawn-out, draw out, harmonies, musician, sounds, The Chords, The Violin, violin, violins
«Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one»
Author: Walter Savage Landor
(Writer)
| About:
Failure
| Keywords:
calamitous, detailed, drawn-out, mishap, Mishaps, witticism, witticisms
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