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«Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace, the baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, the poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, the indifferent judge between the high and low.»
Author: Sir Philip Sidney
(Statesman)
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baiting, balm, high and low, knot, poor man, prisoner, release, The Prisoner, woe
«I say that I am myself, but what is this Self of mine But a knot in the tangled skein of things where chance and change combine? Donald R»
Author: Don Marquis
(Columnist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Writer)
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combine, Donald, knot, knotted, skein, tangle, tangled, tangles, tangle with, what is this
«It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.»
«There'll be white blackbirds before an unwilling woman ties the knot.»
Author: Irish Proverb
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«BATTLE, n. A method of untying with the teeth of a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.»
«DUEL, n. A formal ceremony preliminary to the reconciliation of two enemies. Great skill is necessary to its satisfactory observance; if awkwardly performed the most unexpected and deplorable consequences sometimes ensue. A long time ago a man lost his life in a duel.That dueling's a gentlemanly vice I hold; and wish that it had been my lot To live my life out in some favored spot -- Some country where it is considered nice To split a rival like a fish, or slice A husband like a spud, or with a shot Bring down a debtor doubled in a knot And ready to be put upon the ice. Some miscreants there are, whom I do long To shoot, to stab, or some such way reclaim The scurvy rogues to better lives and manners, I seem to see them now --a mighty throng. It looks as if to challenge _me_ they came, Jauntily marching with brass bands and banners! --Xamba Q. Dar»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot, which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
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gordian, Gordian knot, knot, patiently, spends, untie, untied, untying