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Letter "D" » diligent
«There are things in your life you can control - and there are variables you can't. The more diligent you are at controlling what you can, the more influence you'll have over your destiny. You just have to figure out which are which.»
«Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.»
Author: Denis Diderot
| About:
Genius,
Nature,
Solitude
| Keywords:
combined, diligent, exact, experiments, geniuses, observation, These Three
«LIFE is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy. Peace is the interlude between two wars. You have no rose without a thorn; the diligent picker will avoid the pricks and gather the flower. There is no bee without the sting; cleverness consists in gathering the honey nevertheless.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
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«Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.»
«I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.»
«Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Leisure
| Keywords:
diligent, leisure, leisure time, obtain
«They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them? / They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.»
«If the study of all these sciences which we have enumerated, should ever bring us to their mutual association and relationship, and teach us the nature of the ties which bind them together, I believe that the diligent treatment of them will forward the objects which we have in view, and that the labor, which otherwise would be fruitless, will be well bestowed.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
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association, bestowed, be well, bind, bring forward, diligent, enumerate, enumerated, enumerating, fruitless, in view, sciences, ties, Ties That Bind, treatment
«O radiant one! Inspire the diligent and the successful only to earn wealth.»
«There is nothing which persevering effort and unceasing and diligent care cannot accomplish.»
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