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«The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within our reach is joy. There is radiance and glory in the darkness could we but see - and to see we have only to look.»
Author: Fra Giovanni Giocondo
(Archeologist, Architect, Engineer)
| About:
World
| Keywords:
gloom, radiance, the darkness
«The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.»
«The traveler, however virginal and enthusiastic, does not enjoy an unbroken ecstasy. He has periods of gloom, periods when he asks himself the object of all these exertions, and puts the question whether or not he is really experiencing pleasure. At such times he suspects that he is not seeing the right things, that the characteristic, the right aspects of these strange scenes are escaping him. He looks forward dully to the days of his holiday yet to pass, and wonders how he will dispose of them. He is disgusted because his money is not more, his command of the language so slight, and his capacity for enjoyment so limited.»
Author: Arnold Bennett
| Keywords:
aspects, disgusted, dispose, dispose of, dully, gloom, holiday, periods, scenes, suspects, The Traveler, traveler, unbroken, virginal
«Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a hideous show»
Author: Matthew Arnold
(Critic, Poet)
| About:
Funerals
| Keywords:
ceremonious, crowded, gape, gaped, gapes, gaping, gloom, hideous, spare, whispering, whisperings
«There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.»
«Then suddenly out of the gloom came a sharp hiss. 'What has it got in its pocketses?'»
«The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
God
| Keywords:
bliss, came, consider, gloom, grief, ignorant, insignificant, learned person, might
«When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
complaining, drive away, endeavoring, exert, gloom, publish, you-drive
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