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Letter "E" » ease
«A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.»
«A box of rain will ease the pain,and love will see you through.»
«A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone.»
Author: Aesop
(Author, Fabulist)
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«Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.»
«An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people- it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the Burden of the Mystery»
Author: John Keats
(Poet)
| About:
Knowledge
| Keywords:
burden, ease, extensive, fever, fevers, heat, needful, speculation, speculations, widen, widened, widens
«If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow.»
Author: William Lyon Phelps
(Educator, Journalist, Professor)
| About:
Happiness,
Men and Women
| Keywords:
American Woman, an American, consisted, cow, cowed, ease, happiest
«He that would live in peace and at ease, Must not speak all he knows, nor judge all he sees»
«If I can stop one Heart from breaking I shall not live in vain If I can ease one life the Aching Or cool one Pain Or help one fainting Robin Unto his Nest again I shall not live in Vain»
«His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.»
«All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
accordance, Anything Else, ease, gifts, meddled, meddles, meddling, Natural right, natural rights, occupation, produced, quantity, superior
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