Quotes - Erma Bombeck
Erma Bombeck:
Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
Poem - Each life converges to some centre By Emily Dickinson
Each life converges to some centre:
Each life converges to some centre
Expressed or still;
Exists in every human nature
A goal
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Expressed or still;
Exists in every human nature
A goal
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Quotes - Gaelic Proverb
Gaelic Proverb:
Modesty is the beauty of women.
Vocabulary - Muslin
Muslin:
A very thin cotton cloth used for making dresses and curtains, especially in the past.
Persian:
پارچه ی کتانی محکم که برای ملافه و روکش متکا به کار می رود و اصل آن از شهر موصل در عراق بوده
Vocabulary - Vane
Vane:
A flat blade that is moved by wind or water to produce power to drive a machine.
Persian: بادنما، پره
Vocabulary - Torrid
Torrid:
Torrid weather is very hot.
The torrid desert sun.
Persian: سوزان
Aesop's Fables - The One-Eyed Doe
The One-Eyed Doe:
A Doe had had the misfortune to lose one of her eyes, and could not see any one approaching her on that side. So to avoid any danger she always used to feed on a high cliff near the sea, with her sound eye looking towards the land. By this means she could see whenever the hunters approached her on land, and often escaped by this means. But the hunters found out that she was blind of one eye, and hiring a boat rowed under the cliff where she used to feed and shot her from the sea. ‘Ah,’ cried she with her dying voice,
‘You cannot escape your fate.’
Quotes - Peter De Vries
Peter De Vries:
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.
Metaphysical Poetry
Metaphysical Poetry:
The metaphysical poets is a term coined by the poet and critic Samuel Johnson to describe a loose group of British lyric poets of the 17th century, whose work was characterized by the inventive use of conceits, and by speculation about topics such as love or religion.
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Vocabulary - Encumbrance
Encumbrance:
A burden or impediment.
When you are walking 30 miles a day,the few encumbrances the better.
He died in 1874, heavily encumbered by debt.
he whole process was encumbered with bureaucracy.
Persian: دردسر، وبال گردن
Poem - A shady friend for torrid days By Emily Dickinson
A shady friend for torrid days:
A shady friend for torrid days
Is easier to find
Than one of higher temperature
For frigid hour of mind.
The vane a little to the east
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Vocabulary - David
David:
The second king of Judah and Israel. According to the Bible, he slew the Philistine giant Goliath and succeeded Saul as king. He is the reputed author of many of the Psalms.
Vocabulary - Goliath
Goliath:
In the Bible, a giant Philistine warrior who was slain by David with a stone and sling.
Persian: جالوت، جلیات: پهلوان غول آسای فلسطینی که حضرت داوود در نبردی تن به تن او را با قلابسنگ هلاک کرد
Aesop's Fables - The Fox Without a Tail
The Fox Without a Tail:
It happened that a Fox caught its tail in a trap, and in struggling to release himself lost all of it but the stump. At first he was ashamed to show himself among his fellow foxes. But at last he determined to put a bolder face upon his misfortune, and summoned all the foxes to a general meeting to consider a proposal which he had to place before them. When they had assembled together the Fox proposed that they should all do away with their tails. He pointed out how inconvenient a tail was when they were pursued by their enemies, the dogs; how much it was in the way when they desired to sit down and hold a friendly conversation with one another. He failed to see any advantage in carrying about such a useless encumbrance. ‘That is all very well,’ said one of the older foxes; ‘but I do not think you would have recommended us to dispense with our chief ornament if you had not happened to lose it yourself.’
Distrust interested advice.
Poem - I took my power in my hand By Emily Dickinson
I took my power in my hand:
I took my power in my hand
And went against the world;
’T was not so much as David had,
But I was twice as bold.
I aimed my pebble, but myself 5
Was all the one that fell.
Was it Goliath was too large,
Or only I too small?
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Quotes - The Holy Bible
The Holy Bible:
If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
William Shakespeare Sonnet 003
William Shakespeare Sonnet 003:
Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest
Now is the time that face should form another;
Whose fresh repair if now thou not renewest,
Thou dost beguile the world, unbless some mother.
For where is she so fair whose uneared womb
Disdains the tillage of thy husbandry?
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Now is the time that face should form another;
Whose fresh repair if now thou not renewest,
Thou dost beguile the world, unbless some mother.
For where is she so fair whose uneared womb
Disdains the tillage of thy husbandry?
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Quotes - Jean Rostand
Jean Rostand:
A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.
Aesop's Fables - The Fox and the Mosquitoes
The Fox and the Mosquitoes:
A Fox after crossing a river got its tail entangled in a bush, and could not move. A number of Mosquitoes seeing its plight settled upon it and enjoyed a good meal undisturbed by its tail. A hedgehog strolling by took pity upon the Fox and went up to him: ‘You are in a bad way, neighbour,’ said the hedgehog; ‘shall I relieve you by driving off those Mosquitoes who are sucking your blood?’
‘Thank you, Master Hedgehog,’ said the Fox, ‘but I would rather not.’
‘Why, how is that?’ asked the hedgehog.
‘Well, you see,’ was the answer, ‘these Mosquitoes have had their fill; if you drive these away, others will come with fresh appetite and bleed me to death.’
Vocabulary - Kernel
Kernel:
The part of a nut or seed inside the shell, or the part inside the stone of some fruits.
Persian: مغز
Poem - Portraits are to daily faces By Emily Dickinson
Portraits are to daily faces:
Portraits are to daily faces
As an evening west
To a fine, pedantic sunshine
In a satin vest.
Quotes - Khaled Hosseini
Khaled Hosseini:
...but better to be hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
Aesop's Fables - The Miser and His Gold
The Miser and His Gold:
Once upon a time there was a Miser who used to hide his gold at the foot of a tree in his garden; but every week he used to go and dig it up and gloat over his gains. A robber, who had noticed this, went and dug up the gold and decamped with it. When the Miser next came to gloat over his treasures, he found nothing but the empty hole. He tore his hair, and raised such an outcry that all the neighbours came around him, and he told them how he used to come and visit his gold. ‘Did you ever take any of it out?’ asked one of them.
‘Nay,’ said he, ‘I only came to look at it.’
‘Then come again and look at the hole,’ said a neighbour; ‘it will do you just as much good.’
Wealth unused might as well not exist.
Quotes - Francesca Lia Block
Francesca Lia Block:
If death is your lover, you don't got to be afraid ever that he will ever leave you.
Poem - On Shakespeare By John Milton
On Shakespeare:
What needs my Shakespear for his honour'd Bones,
The labour of an age in piled Stones,
Or that his hallow'd reliques should be hid
Under a Star-ypointing Pyramid?
Dear son of memory, great heir of Fame,
What need'st thou such weak witnes of thy name?
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Vocabulary - Lexington
Lexington:
A town in northeastern Massachusetts. It was the scene of the first battle in the American Revolution.
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Vocabulary - Prudent
Prudent:
Acting with or showing care and thought for the future.
It might be prudent to get a virus detector for the network.
I told him I thought it would be prudent for both of us to keep our conversation between ourselves.
Persian: محتاط، دوراندیش
Poem - Except the heaven had come so near By Emily Dickinson
Except the heaven had come so near:
Except the heaven had come so near,
So seemed to choose my door,
The distance would not haunt me so;
I had not hoped before.
But just to hear the grace depart 5
I never thought to see,
Afflicts me with a double loss;
’T is lost, and lost to me.
Aesop's Fables - The Man, the Boy, and the Donkey
The Man, the Boy, and the Donkey:
A Man and
his son were once going with their Donkey to market. As they were
walking along by its side a countryman passed them and said: ‘You fools,
what is a Donkey for but to ride upon?’
So the Man put the Boy on the Donkey and they went on their way. But
soon they passed a group of men, one of whom said: ‘See that lazy
youngster, he lets his father walk while he rides.’
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Vocabulary - Tut
Tut:
The sound that you make by touching the top of your mouth with your tongue in order to show disapproval.