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We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks…
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The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the…
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You cannot see the Grand Canyon in one view, as if it were a changeless spectacle from which a curtain might be…
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The elements that unite to make the Grand Canyon the most sublime spectacle in nature are multifarious and exceedingly diverse.
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Possible ideas and thoughts are vast in number. A distinct word for every distinct idea and thought would require a vast vocabulary.…
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The integers of language are sentences, and their organs are the parts of speech. Linguistic organization, then, consists in the differentiation of…
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Indian nouns are extremely connotive; that is, the name does more than simply denote the thing to which it belongs - in…
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The verb is relatively of much greater importance in an Indian tongue than in a civilized language.
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Years of drought and famine come and years of flood and famine come, and the climate is not changed with dance, libation…
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The glories and the beauties of form, color, and sound unite in the Grand Canyon - forms unrivaled even by the mountains,…
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I have heard the venerable and impassioned orator on the camp meeting stand rehearse the story of the crucifixion, and seen the…
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We are now ready to start on our way down the Great Unknown. Our boats...are chafing each other, as they are tossed…
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She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue,…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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So he held her and he prayed. Shafts of moonlight on his face. But the baby in her womb, He was the…
— Andrew Peterson
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ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Coffee falls into the stomach... ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop... the shafts of wit start up like…
— Honore de Balzac
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I know most players do, but I always keep both eyes opened. I still do it. I see two shafts, the real…
— Ben Crenshaw
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We spent the first night of our honeymoon in a country hotel, with Tudor architecture oak beams, and floors which sloped, of…
— Jean Plaidy
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Britain, however, has ended up specializing in the ones you don't see as much of: defense aerospace, making drive shafts for cars,…
— Evan Davis
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Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine,the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar…
— Edmund Spenser
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Journeys bring power and love back into you. If you can't go somewhere, move in the passageways of the self. They are…
— Rumi
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This place of mine never is entered by humans come for conversation, only by the mute moon's light shafts that slip in…
— SaigyÅ
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Proverbs were bright shafts in the Greek and Latin quivers...
— Isaac D'Israeli
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The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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