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«It is fear that first brought gods into the world.»
Author: Petronius
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«Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.»
«It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
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«I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.»
«I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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«History is an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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History
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account, an account, brought, brought about, events, knaves, mostly, rulers, soldiers, unimportant
«I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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Ideas,
Self-knowledge,
Talent
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«It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.»
«Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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Language
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brought, building, city, stone, The Building
«I believe that it may happen that one will succeed, and one must not begin to despair, even though defeated here and there; and even though one sometimes feels a kind of decay, though things go differently from the expected, it is necessary to take heart again and new courage. For the great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed. What is drawing? How does one learn it? It is working through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
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