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«An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.»
«Hate shuts her soul when dove-eyed mercy pleads»
Author: Charles Sprague | About: Hate | Keywords: dove, eyed, pleaded, pleading, pleads, shuts
«If God shuts one door, He opens another»
Author: Irish Sayings | About: God | Keywords: opens, shuts
«He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error»
Author: Tryon Edwards (Theologian) | About: Prejudice | Keywords: devils, possessed, ruinous, shuts
«The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish: it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.»
«Whoever shuts his ears at the cry of the poor, they also shall cry themselves, but not be heard.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: ears, shuts, the poor
«Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.»
«Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.»
«A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.»