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Letter "E" » employing
«Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.»
«Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.»
Author: Louisa May Alcott
(Author)
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«By poetry we mean the art of employing of words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination; the art of doing by means of words, what the painter does by means of colors»
«Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for»
«There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts»
«ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind the dampest kind of dejection. The most famous English example begins somewhat like this:The cur foretells the knell of parting day; The loafing herd winds slowly o'er the lea; The wise man homeward plods; I only stay To fiddle-faddle in a minor key.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.»
«The art of procreation and the members employed therein are so repulsive, that if it were not for the beauty of the faces and the adornments of the actors and the pent-up impulse, nature would lose the human species.»
«Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it. To the great poet, there is only one method of music -- his own. To the great painter, there is only one manner of painting -- that which he himself employs. The aesthetic critic, and the aesthetic critic alone, can appreciate all forms and all modes. It is to him that Art makes her appeal.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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«Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts»
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