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«I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.»
Author: Rene Descartes
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist)
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accustom, accustomed, imagine, lunatics
«I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.»
Author: Johann Kaspar Lavater
(Theologian)
| About:
Faith,
Humanity,
Safety
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accustomed, boldly, boldness, grandly, impudence, In Humanity, nobly, prejudiced, with boldness
«Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb»
Author: Robertson Davies
(Author, Journalist)
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Inaction
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accustomed, deprivation, inactivity, tomb
«PLOW, n. An implement that cries aloud for hands accustomed to the pen.»
«MAGNIFICENT, adj. Having a grandeur or splendor superior to that to which the spectator is accustomed, as the ears of an ass, to a rabbit, or the glory of a glowworm, to a maggot.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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accustomed, glowworm, magnificent, spectator
«OPTIMISM, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. It is held with greatest tenacity by those most accustomed to the mischance of falling into adversity, and is most acceptably expounded with the grin that apes a smile. Being a blind faith, it is inaccessible to the light of disproof --an intellectual disorder, yielding to no treatment but death. It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.»
«Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear this king described as a rude and boisterous tyrant; but with the gentleness of a lover he adorns the tresses of Summer.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
accustomed, adorns, boisterous, delicacy, fragile, inexpressible, phenomena, suggestive, suggestive of
«In walking, the will and the muscles are so accustomed to working together and performing their task with so little expenditure of force that the intellect is left comparatively free.»
«Mark the babe not long accustomed to this breathing world; One that hath barely learned to shape a smile, though yet irrational of soul, to grasp with tiny finger -- to let fall a tear; And, as the heavy cloud of sleep dissolves, To stretch his limbs, becoming, as might seem. The outward functions of intelligent man.»
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