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Letter "L" » leap
«The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.»
«Many great things indeed have been achieved by those who chose not to leap into the mainstream»
«Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.»
Author: Leo Rosten
(Novelist)
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Quotations
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advises, contradict, discovers, fonder, hesitate, leap, out of sight, promptly, Proverbs, sagacity, warns
«The secret of the magic of life consists in using action in order to attain non-action. One must not wish to leap over everything and penetrate directly.»
«That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.»
«The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.»
Author: Walter Bagehot
(Analyst, Economist, Editor)
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Opinions,
Pain
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hasty, Human nature, leap, undergo
«The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps»
«Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.»
Author: Walter Benjamin
(Essayist, Theologian, Writer)
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leap, leap out, quotations, relieve, robbers
«The real Oxford is a close corporation of jolly, untidy, lazy, good-for-nothing humorous old men, who have been electing their own successors ever since the world began and who intend to go on with it. They'll squeeze under the Revolution or leap over it when the time comes, don't you worry.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
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close corporation, corporation, electing, good-for-nothing, humorous, intend, jolly, leap, oxford, squeeze, successors, the revolution, untidy, when the time comes
«Look before you leap, for snakes among sweet flowers do creep»
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