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  • Whoever wishes to be a Christian, let him pluck out the eyes of his reason.

    Christian   Eye   Wish  
    Martin Luther, Jaroslav Pelikan, Helmut T. Lehmann (1955). “Works”
  • I've never had my brows done - I tweeze them myself. I used to watch my mom pluck her brows, that's how I learned.

    Mom   Watches   Done  
  • Ares ever loves to pluck all the fairest flower of an armed host.

    War   Flower   Host  
    Aeschylus (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)”, p.347, Delphi Classics
  • I find the whole concept of being 'sexy' embarrassing and confusing. If I do a photo-shoot, people desperately want to change me - dye my hair blonder, pluck my eyebrows, give me a fringe. Then there's the choice of clothes. I know everyone wants a picture of me in a mini-skirt. But that's not me.

    Sexy   Clothes   Hair  
  • The caterpillars of the commonwealth, Which I have sworn to weed and pluck away.

    Weed   Politics   Pluck  
    William Shakespeare, Roma Gill (1998). “Richard II”, p.45, Oxford University Press, USA
  • ...the reader who plucks a book from her shelf only once is as deprived as the listener who, after attending a single performance of a Beethoven symphony, never hears it again.

    Book   Symphony   Shelves  
  • If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.

    Respect   Lions   Beard  
    Martial (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Martial (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics
  • E'en in mid-harvest, while the jocund swain Pluck'd from the brittle stalk the golden grain, Oft have I seen the war of winds contend, And prone on earth th' infuriate storm descend, Waste far and wide, and by the roots uptorn, The heavy harvest sweep through ether borne, As light straw and rapid stubble fly In dark'ning whirlwinds round the wintry sky.

    War   Dark   Agriculture  
    Virgil (1830). “Virgil”, p.79
  • The world expected girls to pluck and primp and put on heels. Meanwhile, boys dressed in rumpled T-shirts and baggy pants and misplace their combs, and yet you were suppose to fall at their feet? Unacceptable.

    Girl   Fall   Boys  
    Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.241, Scholastic Inc.
  • Sacrifice may be a flower that virtue will pluck on its road, but it was not to gather this flower that virtue set forth on its travels.

    Flower   Sacrifice   May  
    Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “Wisdom and Destiny: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.72, 谷月社
  • The harmony that holds the stars on their courses and the flesh on our bones resonates through all creation. Every sound contains its echo. Before there was humankind, or even forest, there was sound. Sound spread from the source in great circles like those formed when a stone is dropped in a pool. We follow waves of sound from life to life. A dying man’s ears will hear long after his eyes are blind. He hears the sound that leads him to his next life as the Source of All being plucks the harp of creation.

    Stars   Eye   Men  
  • 'T is hers to pluck the amaranthine flower Of faith, and round the sufferer's temples bind Wreaths that endure affliction's heaviest shower, And do not shrink from sorrow's keenest wind.

    Faith   Flower   Wind  
    William Wordsworth (1851). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth ...”, p.180
  • Every time a good child dies, an angel of God comes down to earth. He takes the child in his arms, spreads out his great white wings, and flies with it all over the places the child loved on earth. The angel plucks a large handful of flowers, and they carry it with them up to God, where the flowers bloom more brightly than they ever did on earth.

    Children   Flower   Angel  
    Hans Christian Andersen (2016). “Best Fairy Tales”, p.115, Pan Macmillan
  • To be a Christian, you must pluck out the eye of reason.

  • To survive, each sentence must have, at its heart, a little spark of fire, and this, whatever the risk, the novelist must pluck with his own hands from the blaze.

    Heart   Fire   Hands  
    Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.3635, Delphi Classics
  • All that is worth seeing in good boxing can best be witnessed in a contest with soft gloves. Every value is called out: quickness, force, precision, foresight, readiness, pluck, and endurance. With these, the rowdy and 'rough' are not satisfied.

  • I have not skillFrom such a sharp and waspish word as "No"To pluck the sting.

    Pluck  
  • To write a blues song is to regiment riots and pluck gems from graves.

    Song   Writing   Pluck  
    Etheridge Knight (1980). “Born of a woman: new and selected poems”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
  • Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - the great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning.

  • Pluck not the wayside flower; It is the traveler's dower.

    Flower   Pluck   Traveler  
    William Allingham, Helen Paterson Allingham (1912). “Poems”
  • Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning.

    George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.27
  • You are young, and I am older; You are hopeful, I am not- Enjoy life, ere it grow colder- Pluck the roses ere they rot.

    Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.684, Library of America
  • Advertising is like learning - a little is a dangerous thing. If a man has not the pluck to keep on advertising, all the money he has already spent is lost.

  • Each tree Laden with fairest fruit, that hung to th' eye Tempting, stirr'd in me sudden appetite To pluck and eat.

    Eye   Tree   Fruit  
    John Milton (1871). “The poetical works of John Milton, ed. with a critical memoir by W.M. Rossetti”, p.127
  • Images flicker, each one bringing its own sorrow or its own smile. Sometimes both. At the very worst, an impenetrable and sightless black and at best, a happiness so bright that it hurts the eyes to see, coming and going on some unseen projector perpetually turned by an invisible hand. One, then another. The hollow click of the shutter. Now stop. Freeze this frame. Pluck it down and hold it close and be damned by what you see. Henri always said: the price of a memory is the memory if the sorrow it brings.

    Hurt   Memories   Eye  
  • Pluck from under the family all the props which religion and morality have given it, strip it of the glamour, true or false, cast round it by romance, it will still remain a prosaic, indisputable fact, that the whole business of begetting, bearing and rearing children, is the most essential of all the nation's businesses.

  • My fingers positively itched to drift at length along their spines, to arrive at one whose lure I could not pass, to pluck it down, to inch it open, then to close my eyes and inhale the soul-sparking scent of old and literate dust.

    Eye   Dust   Soul  
    Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.63, Simon and Schuster
  • Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight.

    Heart   Mirrors   Sight  
  • Shorten my days thou canst with sullen sorrow, And pluck nights from me, but not lend a morrow; Thou canst help time to furrow me with age, But stop no wrinkle in his pilgrimage.

    Time   Grief   Night  
    William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.865, Oxford University Press
  • I would not be a rose upon the wall A queen might stop at, near the palace-door, To say to a courtier, "Pluck that rose for me, It's prettier than the rest." O Romney Leigh! I'd rather far be trodden by his foot, Than lie in a great queen's bosom.

    Life   Queens   Wall  
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1857). “Aurora Leigh”, p.129
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