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Letter "A" » ardent
«The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody would put a flagstick on top.»
«The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.»
Author: Phillip Brooks
| About:
Advice,
Friends
| Keywords:
adviser, advisers, ardent, blunders, helpers, special act, special case
«Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.»
«As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.»
Author: Diogenes
(Founder, Philosopher)
| About:
Needs
| Keywords:
ardent, former, instruct, latter, preservation, self preservation
«Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity»
«It is better to be bold than too circumspect, because fortune is of a sex which likes not a tardy wooer and repulses all who are not ardent»
«If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential -- for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Power,
Wealth,
Wishes
| Keywords:
ardent, disappoints, eye, for anything, passionate, possibility, potential, The Eye, wealth
«In truth you cannot understand the nature of My Reality, either today, or even after a thousand years of steady austerity or ardent inquiry, even if all mankind joins in that effort.»
«That peace, safety, and concord may be the portion of our native land, and be long enjoyed by our fellow-citizens, is the most ardent wish of my heart, and if I can be instrumental in procuring or preserving them, I shall think I have not lived in va»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
ardent, Concord, instrumental, native land, preserving, procuring
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