Every principal art has some science for its parent, though the person who mechanically performs the work does not always, and but very seldom, perceive the connection . ~ Thomas Paine


Next Word; connection

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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable .
~Soren Kierkegaard

Next word; incalculable

The motions of her mind were as incalculable as the flit of a bird.~Edith Wharton

Next word: flit

Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power.
~ Lord Byron



Next word: Dim

The main aurora oval on Jupiter we think should dim when the solar wind blows harder, but what we see is that actually gets brighter , which is totally counter intuitive and we still don?t know why. ~ Jonathan Nichols


Next word; brighter


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When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.~Akhenaton

Next word: lustre

No radiant pearl which crested Fortune wears, No gem that twinkling hangs from Beauty's ears, Not the bright stars which Night's blue arch adorn, Nor rising suns that gild the vernal morn, Shine with such lustre as the tear that flows Down Virtue's manly cheek for others' woes.
~ Erasmus Darwin



Next word: vernal

One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can. ~ William Wordsworth


Next word; sages

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The pipe, with solemn interposing puff,
Makes half a sentence at a time enough;
The dozing sages drop the drowsy strain,
Then pause, and puff--and speak, and pause again.
~William Cowper, Conversation (l. 245)

Next word: interposing

Those who in quarrels interpose - Must often wipe a bloody nose . ~ John Gay


Next word; nose

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He had no nose, properly speaking, but a large beak of preposterous widthlessness, which gave his whole face the expression of falling gravely downstairs, and quite obliterated the unimportant chin.~e.e.cummings, The Enormous Room, ch. 1

Next word: preposterous

All inquiry into antiquity, all curiosity respecting the Pyramids, the excavated cities, Stonehenge, the Ohio Circles, Mexico, Memphis,—is the desire to do away this wild, savage, and preposterous There and Then, and introduce in its place the Here and Now.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Next word antiquity

It is folly for an eminent person to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected by it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age, have passed through this fiery persecution. There is no defense against reproach but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph.
~ Joseph Addison



Next word: eminent

He can have few rivals in the courage and integrity and complete self-abnegation with which he has given up his own career (in which, however, he still remains eminent ) to devote himself to combating the nuclear peril as well as other, allied evils. ~ Bertrand Russell


Next word; allied

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To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.~William R. Alger

Next word: maxim

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
~ Aristotle



Next word: unbecoming

There is nothing in the whole world so unbecoming to a woman as a Nonconformist conscience . ~ Oscar Wilde


Next word; conscience

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Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.~H. L. Mencken

Next word: mother-in-law

Modesty, humility and intuitive understanding are my mother-in-law and father-in-law; I have made good deeds my spouse.
~Sri Guru Granth Sahib

Next word;father-in-law

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law ? ~ Dick Clark


Next word; modicum

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