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«There are few situations in life that cannot be resolved promptly, and to the satisfaction of all concerned, by either suicide, a bag of gold, or thrusting a despised antagonist over a precipice on a dark night»
Author: Ernest Bramah | Keywords: antagonist, antagonists, bag, despised, precipice, precipices, promptly, resolved, situations, thrusting
«In battle, in the forest, at the precipice in the mountains, On the dark great sea, in the midst of javelins and arrows, In sleep, in confusion, in the depths of shame, The good deeds a man has done before defend him»
Author: Bhagavad Gita | Keywords: arrows, confusion, depths, forest, Great Sea, in the midst, javelin, javelins, midst, precipice, precipices, sleep in
«The river seeking for the seaConfronts the dam and precipice,Yet knows it cannot fail or miss;You will be what you will to be!»
Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox | Keywords: confronts, dam, dammed, dams, dam up, precipice, precipices, The River
«Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.»
Author: Logan Pearsall Smith (Writer) | Keywords: blooms, double talk, Edge of, meanings, pluck, precipice, precipices, rarest, razor, Razors, razor edge
«When your eyes are fixed in the stare of unconsciousness, and your throat coughs the last gasping breath - as one dragged in the dark to a great precipice - what assistance are a wife and child?»
Author: George Bernard Shaw (Critic, Essayist, Playwright) | Keywords: assistance, coughing, coughs, dragged, gasp, gasping, gasps, precipice, precipices, stare, throat, unconsciousness
«So you are lean and mean and resourceful and you continue to walk on the edge of the precipice because over the years you have become fascinated by how close you can walk without losing your balance.»
Author: Richard M. Nixon (President) | Keywords: fascinated, precipice, precipices, resourceful, walk-on
«He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect, that he must himself sink in like manner, and, as he stands upon the same precipice, be swept away with the same violence»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Manners, Violence | Keywords: gulf, Gulf of, obscurity, precipice, precipices, predecessors, pushing, push away, sink, sink in, swept, Swept Away
«Desire is storm, greed is whirlpool, pride is precipice, attachment is avalanche, ego is volcano. Discard desire and you are liberated.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba (Spiritual leader) | Keywords: avalanche, avalanches, precipice, precipices
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