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Letter "B" » by chance
«Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.»
Author: Abigail Adams
(First Lady, Writer)
| About:
Learning
| Keywords:
ardor, attained, attended, by chance, diligence, sought
«Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.»
Author: Abigail Adams
(First Lady, Writer)
| About:
Learning
| Keywords:
ardor, attained, by chance, diligence, sought
«If what I do prove well, it won't advance. They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance.»
«I do my thing and you do yours. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, then it is beautiful. If not, it can't be helped.»
Author: Frederick Perls
(psychiatrist)
| About:
Expectation
| Keywords:
beautiful, by chance, chance, Do, each, each other, expectations, find, helped, help out, if not, in this, In this World, I am, live, live up to, mine, mined, mining, other, take chances, then, thing, this, To Live, up to, world
«Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.»
«Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.»
«ABSOLUTE, adj. Independent, irresponsible. An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins. Not many absolute monarchies are left, most of them having been replaced by limited monarchies, where the sovereign's power for evil (and for good) is greatly curtailed, and by republics, which are governed by chance.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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absolute monarchy, assassins, by chance, curtail, left most, monarchies, monarchy, pleases, replaced, The Assassins
«It costs me never a stab nor squirm / To tread by chance upon a worm. / Aha, my little dear, / I say, Your clan will pay me back one day.»
«It makes a man a coward. . . . It fills a man full of obstacles. It made me once restore a purse of gold that by chance I found. It beggars any man that keeps it. It is turned out of towns and cities for a dangerous thing, and every man that means to live well endeavors to trust to himself and live without it.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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beggars, by chance, coward, endeavors, fills, out-of-town, purse, restore, towns, turned out
«A fool must now and then be right, by chance.»
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