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«I do not love the bright sword for it's sharpness, nor the arrow for it's swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend»
«I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?»
«He who knows that this body is like froth, and has learnt that it is as unsubstantial as a mirage, will break the flower-pointed arrow of illusion, and never see the king of death.»
«If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.»
«Just as an arrow once released from the bow can not return,in the same manner painful and harsh words can not be taken back. »
Author: Sam Veda | Keywords: arrow
«Into thy womb shall enter a male germ, as an arrow into a quiver! May a man be born there, a son ten months old!»
Author: Atharva Veda | Keywords: arrow, germ, quiver
«It is easy to dodge a spear that comes in front of you but hard to keep harms away from an arrow shot from behind.»
«I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.»
«I shot an arrow in the air, / It fell to earth, I know not where.»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Poet) | Keywords: arrow
«If an arrow is shot at the sky, how can it reach there? The sky above is unreachable - know this well, O archer!»

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