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«Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition . . .»
Author: Amelia E. Barr
(Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Solitude
| Keywords:
comforts, condition, counseled, counseling, counsels, hurried, hurries, hurry, potential, potentials, receive, solitude, turmoil, under, voices
«What an odd thing tourism is. You fly off to a strange land, eagerly abandoning all the comforts of home, and then expend vast quantities of time and money in a largely futile attempt to recapture the comforts that you wouldn't have lost if you hadn't left home in the first place.»
Author: Bill Bryson
(Writer)
| Keywords:
abandoning, comforts, eagerly, expend, expended, expending, expends, futile, home in, in the first place, landing place, largely, odd, quantities, recapture, recaptured, Strange Land, tourism, vast
«The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts --the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria --are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy.»
Author: Edward Dahlberg
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
automatic, cafeteria, cafeterias, comforts, depriving, elevator, Elevators, escalator, escalators, merchant, populace, self-service, self interest, specious, volition
«There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never known beyond its hallowed limits»
«Strange how a teapot Can represent at the same time The comforts of solitude And the pleasures of company»
«The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is great; but the advantages of this law are also greater still than its cost / for it is to this law that we owe our wonderful material development, which brings improved conditions in its train. But, whether the law be benign or not, we must say of it: It is here; we cannot evade it; no substitutes for it have been found; and while the law may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.»
Author: Andrew Carnegie
(Industrialist, Philanthropist)
| Keywords:
advantages, benign, cheap, comforts, competition, department, ensures, ensuring, evade, evaded, evading, fittest, improved, luxuries, owe, pays, substitutes, survival, survival of the fittest, train
«Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Adversity,
Prosperity
| Keywords:
comforts
«Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Adversity,
Prosperity
| Keywords:
comforts, prosperity
«To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
comforts, die away, negligence, pilgrimage, pilgrimages, The Pilgrimage, throw away, voluntarily, weary
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