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  • However you must have sensed a lurking 'but' skulking beneath my happy, blithe, and chipper exterior. A minuscule vexation, like the teeniest lump of raw liver sticking to the inside of my boot.

    Boots   Vexation   Blithe  
  • There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a gossamer web. They seemed insubstantial when you first saw them, a string of squiggles. Yet to follow the delicate tensors as they contracted, as the superscripts paired with subscripts, collapsing mathematically into concrete classical entities - potential; mass; forces vectoring in a curved geometry - that was a sublime experience. The iron fist of the real, inside the velvet glove of airy mathematics.

    Real   Math   Iron  
  • I am one of those who hold that poetry is never so blithe as in a wanton and irregular subject.

    Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.145, Stanford University Press
  • In the downhill of life, when I find I'm declining, May my lot no less fortunate be Than a snug elbow-chair can afford for reclining, And a cot that o'erlooks the wide sea; With an ambling pad-pony to pace o'er the lawn, While I carol away idle sorrow, And blithe as the lark that each day hails the dawn, Look forward with hope for to-morrow.

    Sea   Sorrow   Ponies  
  • Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.

  • Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.

    William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.337
  • Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever,- One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never.

    Lost Love   Men   Sea  
    'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 2, sc. 3, l. [65]
  • Here may I live what life I please, Married and buried out of sight, - Married to pleasure and buried to pain, - Hidden away amongst scenes like these, Under the fans of the chestnut trees; Living my child-life over again, With the further hope of a fallen delight, Blithe as the birds and wise as the bees.

    Life   Wise   Hope  
    Violet Fane (1880). “Collected Verses”
  • On the green banks of Shannon, when Sheelah was nigh, No blithe Irish lad was so happy as I, No harp like my own could so cheerily play, And wherever I went was my poor dog Tray.

    Happiness   Dog   Play  
    'The Harper' (1799)
  • As a young designer explained to me bluntly: "Everyone upstairs is dumb," referring to the floor above the engineering lair at the 156 University office where customer support, administrators and salespeople sat. My first impulse was to laugh at his ridiculous, blithe dismissiveness, until I realized that it wasn't very funny.

    Katherine Losse (2012). “The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network”, p.77, Simon and Schuster
  • Tad Homer-Dixon is a rare kind of public intellectual, who combines real expertise with a commitment to communicate to the widest possible readership. In The Ingenuity Gap he wants us all to wake-up to the fearful possibility that our blithe trust in science and technology may be misplaced. Human ingenuity may not be capable of coping with two emerging crises of this century and the next: population growth and environmental despoliation. Read Homer Dixon's wake-up call and you will see the future very differently.

  • The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.

    Heart   Wool   Jewelry  
  • Knowledge enormous makes a God of me. Names, deeds, gray legends, dire events, rebellions, Majesties, sovran voices, agonies, Creations and destroyings, all at once Pour into the wide hollows of my brain, And deify me, as if some blithe wine Or bright elixir peerless I had drunk, And so become immortal.

    Wine   Agony   Names  
    John Keats (2015). “John Keats - The Man Behind The Lyrics: Life, letters, and literary remains: Complete Letters and Two Extensive Biographies of one of the most beloved English Romantic poets”, p.307, e-artnow
  • Sigh no more ladies, sigh no more, men were deceivers ever

    Men   Blithe   Sigh  
    'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 2, sc. 3, l. [65]
  • When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion.

  • I'm not much like my mother; that role falls to my brothers, who have more of her blithe and freewheeling spirit.

    Mother   Brother   Fall  
  • There was a jolly miller once, Lived on the River Dee; He worked and sang, from morn to night; No lark so blithe as he. And this the burden of his song, Forever used to be, "I care for nobody, not I, If no one cares for me.

    Song   Night   Rivers  
    Love in aVillage act 1, sc. 2 (1762)
  • For in the theoretical field bourgeois economics no longer engages in blithe and joyous fights.

  • A human being tends to believe that the mood of the moment, be it troubled or blithe, peaceful or stormy, is the true, native, and permanent tenor of his existence.

    Life   Believe   Peaceful  
  • The writing has been on the wall for some years now, but we are a nation illiterate in the language of the wall. The writing just gets bigger. Something will eventually bring down the charming, infuriating naïveté of Americans that allows us our blithe consumption and cheerful ignorance of the secret ugliness that bring us whatever we want.

    Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Small Wonder”, p.317, Faber & Faber
  • As I walked in the woods I felt what I often feel that nothing can befall me in life, no calamity, no disgrace (leaving me my eyes) to which Nature will not offer a sweet consolation. Standing on the bare ground with my head bathed by the blithe air, & uplifted into the infinite space, I become happy in my universal relations. The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign & accidental. I am the heir of uncontained beauty and power.

    Sweet   Nature   Eye  
  • O Cuckoo! shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering voice?

    Voice   Bird   Cuckoos  
    'To the Cuckoo' (O blithe new-comer!, 1807)
  • He is annoyed with their lack of interest, their blithe ignorance of the arbitrary genetic lottery that has granted them their privileged lives.

    Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.160, A&C Black
  • The poet is blithe and cheery ever, and as well as nature.

    Poetry   Poet   Blithe  
    Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.279, Simon and Schuster
  • I dwell no more in Arcady, But when the sky is blue with May, And birds are blithe and winds are free, I know what message is for me, For I have been in Arcady.

    Blue   Wind   Sky  
    Louise Chandler Moulton (1908). “The Poems and Sonnets of Louise Chandler Moulton ...”
  • Every new born being indeed comes fresh and blithe into the new existence, and enjoys it as a free gift: but there is, and can be, nothing freely given. It's fresh existence is paid for by the old age and death of a worn out existence which has perished, but which contained the indestructible seed out of which the new existence has arisen: they are one being.

    Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 3 of 3)”, p.146, Kshetra Books
  • It's no surprise that the Bush administration's bullying swagger and blithe ignorance have caused much of the Muslim world to hold the U.S. in rock-bottom regard.

  • Standing on the bare ground,--my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space,--all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God.

    Faith   Nature   Mean  
    Nature, rev. ed., ch. 1 (1849)
  • O' who will walk with me along lifes merry way? A comrade blithe and full of glee, who dares to laugh out loud and free.

    Laughing   Glee   Way  
    Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The works of Henry Van Dyke”
  • Do not judge from mere appearances.

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