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«Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things»
Author: Alexander Hamilton
(Lawyer, Secretary, Soldier, Statesman, Thinker)
| Keywords:
calculate, consist, constitutions, necessarily, permanent, provisions
«Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.»
«Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist of creating out of void, but out of chaos»
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(Novelist)
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Inventions
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admitted, consist, humbly, void
«Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.»
«A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction»
«Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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Ability
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commonly, consist, higher degree, mainly, solemnities, solemnity, to a higher degree, to the highest degree
«A religion, that is, a true religion, must consist of ideas and facts both; not of ideas alone without facts, for then it would be mere Philosophy; / nor of facts alone without ideas, of which those facts are symbols, or out of which they arise, or upon which they are grounded: for then it would be mere History.»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
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arise, consist, grounded, history of ideas, symbols
«It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
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Infidelity
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consist, disbelieving, infidelities, infidelity, professing
«Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.»
Author: Thomas Fuller
(Clergyman, Writer)
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adding, consist, contentment, fuel, fueled, fuels
«All people know the same truth; our lives consist of how we choose to distort them»
Author: Woody Allen
(Actor, Author, Film Director, Screenwriter)
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consist, distort, distorting
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