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Letter "A" » allot
«All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You find you haven't got it»
«Alone among all creatures, the species that styles itself wise, Homo sapiens, has an abiding interest in its distant origins, knows that its allotted time is short, worries about the future and wonders about the past.»
«The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
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allot, allots, cemetery, colony, earliest, founders, invariably, necessities, originally, project, site, sites, the colonies, The Founders, The Virgin, Utopia, Virgin
«One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.»
«He who is not satisfied with a little is not satisfied with allot.»
Author: Greek proverb
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allot
«It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.»
«Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities, superior, either in kind or degree, to those which he sees allotted to the rest of the world; and, whatever apparent disadvantages he may suffer in the comparis»
«Such is the pleasure of projecting that many content themselves with a succession of visionary schemes, and wear out their allotted time in the calm amusement of contriving what they never attempt or hope to execute»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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allot, allots, allotted, contriving, projecting, schemes, succession, wear out
«I do not allot work to this person or that, or consult anyone for ideas and suggestions.»
«Reflection is the business of man; a sense of his state is his first duty: but who remembereth himself in joy? Is it not in mercy then that sorrow is allotted unto us?»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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Reflection
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allot, allots, allotted, The Business
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