If poetry is like an orgasm, an academic can be likened to someone who studies the passion-stains on the bedsheets.
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The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act of intuition. Such intuitions give the appearance of miraculous flushes, or short-circuits of reasoning. In fact they may be likened to an immersed chain, of which only the beginning and the end are visible above the surface of consciousness. The diver vanishes at one end of the chain and comes up at the other end, guided by invisible links.
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There are pauses amidst study, and even pauses of seeming idleness, in which a process goes on which may be likened to the digestion of food. In those seasons of repose, the powers are gathering their strength for new efforts; as land which lies fallow recovers itself for tillage.
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Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: / But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
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Matthew 13:24:
Jesus told them another parable: 'The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field.'
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Another parable He set forth before them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field.
(AMP)
Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:
(KJV)
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Your mind, which is yourself, can be likened to a house. The first necessary move then, is to rid that house of all but furnishings essential to success.
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Of all the characters I have known, perhaps Walden wears best, and best preserves its purity. Many men have been likened to it, but few deserv...
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Matthew 25:1:
'At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.'
(NIV)
THEN THE kingdom of heaven shall be likened to ten virgins who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom.
(AMP)
Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.
(KJV)
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Matthew 7:26:
But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.
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And everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not do them will be like a stupid (foolish) man who built his house upon the sand.
(AMP)
And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:
(KJV)
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Those who have likened our life to a dream were more right, by chance, than they realized. We are awake while sleeping, and waking sleep.
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