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Letter "A" » anxious
«The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.»
Author: Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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anxious, beach, greedy, impatient, impatient of, lying in wait, On the Beach, The Beaches, too-greedy
«True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.»
«When I turned two I was really anxious, because I'd doubled my age in a year. I thought, if this keeps up, by the time I'm six I'll be ninety.»
«What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
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Action
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anxious, disposition, moral character, namely, statesman, The Statesman, virtuous
«We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess»
«True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man; to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence on the future; not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient»
Author: Seneca
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Duty,
Happiness
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abundantly, amuse, anxious, dependence, duties, sufficient
«We must not allow ourselves to be deflected by the feminists who are anxious to force us to regard the two sexes as completely equal in position and worth»
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