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«The commonest form, one of the most often neglected, and the safest opportunity for the average man to seize, is hard work»
«It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive.»
Author: C. W. Leadbeater
| About:
Perception
| Keywords:
commonest, common mistake, limit, perceive, perception, The Limit
«To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do»
Author: Charles Dudley Warner
(Author, Editor)
| About:
Men
| Keywords:
commonest, common ground, hoe, hoed, hoeing, renewal, satisfactory, scratch, Seeds
«To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
commoner, commonest, forget, form, purpose, purposing, stupidities, stupidity, The Forgotten
«Conviction brings a silent, indefinable beauty into faces made of the commonest human clay; the devout worshiper at any shrine reflects something of its golden glow, even as the glory of a noble love shines like a sort of light from a woman's face»
Author: Honore de Balzac
(Novelist)
| About:
Conviction
| Keywords:
clay, commonest, devout, even as, glow, golden glow, indefinable, reflects, shrine, worshiper, worshipers
«The only freedom that is of enduring importance is the freedom of intelligence, that is to say, freedom of observation and of judgment, exercised in behalf of purposes that are intrinsically worth while. The commonest mistake made about freedom is, I think, to identify it with freedom of movement, or, with the external or physical side of activity.»
Author: John Dewey
(Educator, Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Freedom
| Keywords:
behalf, commonest, common mistake, enduring, exercised, freedom of movement, identify, intrinsically, physical exercise, that is to say
«Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Marriage,
Men and Women,
Women
| Keywords:
amount, commonest, endured, livelihood, marriage, mode, probably, prostitution, total, undesired
«Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
commonest, courageous, disobedience, distinguished, lazier, laziest, neglect, neglecting, neglects, rarest, seldom, Too lazy, vices, virtues
«Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel.»
«George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
accomplishments, Boy George, commonest, George Washington
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