Leonardo da Vinci
Artist, Scientist, Inventor
"An arch consists of two weaknesses which, leaning one against the other, make a strength."
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Arches
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E. M. Forster
Novelist, Essayist
"Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence."
Virginia Woolf
Novelist
"Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust."
Homer
Poet
"I am a part of all that I have met. Yet, experience is an arch wherethro gleams that untravl'd world whose margin fades forever and forever when I move."
David Foster Wallace
Writer
"The greatest sin is appearing naive or old-fashioned so that somebody can give you a sort of a very cool arch smile and devastate you with one extraordinarily crafted line that puts kind of a hole in your pretentious balloon."
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"If one believes, then miracles occur."
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"It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self."
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"If an architect wants to strengthen a decrepit arch, he increases the load laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together."
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"The archenemy is the arch stupid!"
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"Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness."
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"It is a sad fact that because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to adjust to injustice, the Western nations that initiated so much of the revolutionary spirit of the modern world have now become the arch-antirevolutionaries."
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"There is an oath upon her," he said to Arch, and I realized dimly that he was still speaking in Gaelic, though I understood him clearly. "She may not kill, save it is for mercy or her life. It is myself who kills for her."
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"Dark accurate plunger down the successive knell Of arch on arch, where ogives burst a red Reverberance of hail upon the dead Thunder like an exploding crucible!"
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"Great. "So not only am I not-human, but Death is my arch foe?" Who, me? Panic? "Anything else you want to tell me, while we're confessing?"
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"The wolf is the arch type of ravin, the beast of waste and desolation."
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"And then the sly arch-lover that he was, he said the subtlest thing of all: that the lover was nearer the divine than the beloved; for the god was in the one but not in the other - perhaps the tenderest, most mocking thought that ever was thought, and source of all the guile and secret bliss the lover knows."
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"Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts"
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"I'll bridge these hills with graceful arches"
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"Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe."
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