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Letter "D" » deemed
«But when the fourteenth night was come, as we were driven up and down in Adria, about midnight the shipmen deemed that they drew near to some country; / And sounded, and found it twenty fathoms: and when they had gone a little further, they sounded again, and found it fifteen fathoms.»
«DISABUSE, v.t. The present your neighbor with another and better error than the one which he has deemed it advantageous to embrace.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
advantageous, deemed, disabuse, disabused
«All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.»
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
(Diplomat, First Lady, Humanitarian)
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«Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.»
«If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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«A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.»
«Adversity is the first path to truth; He who hath proved war, storm, or woman's rage, Whether his winters be eighteen or eighty, Has won the experience which is deemed so weighty»
«For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.»
«Each age has deemed the new-born year. The fittest time for festal cheer»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
New Year
| Keywords:
deemed, festal, fittest
«Among the most inestimable of our blessings, also, is that.. of liberty to worship our Creator in the way we think most agreeable to His will; a liberty deemed in other countries incompatible with good government and yet proved by our experience to»
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