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To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent.
George Crabbe
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George Crabbe
English
Poet
Born:
Dec 24
,
1754
Died:
Feb 3
,
1832
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Sigh
,
Repent
,
Grieve
,
Recede
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God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.
Jean Paul
God
Soul
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Planted
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
Karl Marx
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Heart
People
World
Sigh
Soulless
Opium
Oppressed
Conditions
Heartless
Creature
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'
Sydney J. Harris
Life
Life Is Hard
Somebody
Sigh
Tempted
Always
Am
Hear
Ask
Hard
Compared
This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief.
James Lovelock
War
Crazy
Humanity
Earth
Sigh
Out
Relief
Would
Wiped
Were
Just
Stop
Breathe
Nuclear
Nuclear War
Programme
So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar.
Matthew Henry
Great
Pain
Sigh
Extremity
Only
Anguish
He
Roar
His
Did
When a kid graduates from being the youngest in a family to being a big brother or sister, there's an amazing transformation. They have to make a big effort, and when they accept their new position in the family, everybody breathes a sigh of relief. All of a sudden they seem bigger, and they seem smarter, and they feel good about it, too.
Peggy Rathmann
Good
Family
Feel Good
Amazing
Big
Sister
Transformation
Too
Everybody
Kid
Sigh
Relief
Brother
About
Seem
Feel
Smarter
New
Make
Accept
Big Brother
Effort
Graduates
Being
Bigger
Breathes
Youngest
Sudden
Position
Feminism is experiential; it's comparing notes. And when those stories get told, and you realize it's not just you - it's bigger - there's just a huge sigh of relief. Otherwise, you think you're crazy.
Robin Morgan
Crazy
You
Feminism
Think
Otherwise
Sigh
Those
Relief
Huge
Get
Just
Stories
Bigger
Notes
Realize
Comparing
Ed Koch will never 'rest in peace.' That was not his way. He was always nervously squirming, while making others squirm as well. Comfort was not his goal. He understood that to be a proud and assertive Jew meant never being able to leave a sigh of relief and say, 'It's over, we are at peace, we can now put down our guard and relax.'
Alan Dershowitz
Peace
Relax
Will
Rest
Down
Guard
Others
Our
Way
Say
Sigh
Relief
Able
Never
He
Put
Over
Well
Comfort
Always
Proud
Making
Understood
Leave
His
His Way
Goal
Being
While
Meant
Assertive
Now
Jew
The three-thousand hitting thing was the first time I let individual pressure get to me. I was uptight about it. When I saw the hit going through, I had a sigh of relief more than anything.
Carl Yastrzemski
Time
Me
Pressure
First
Saw
Sigh
Relief
About
More
More Than Anything
Individual
Through
Had
First Time
Hit
Than
Get
Hitting
Going
Anything
Uptight
Thing
That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.
Charles Dickens
Change
Three
Half
Society
Slight
Sigh
General
Small
Head
Sort
Accompanied
Pity
Which
Two
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