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«It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.»
Author: Robert Collier
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«Nothing is more patent, indeed, than the fact that charity merely converts the unfit - who, in the course of nature, would soon die out and so cease to encumber the earth - into parasites - who live on indefinitely, a nuisance and a burden to their b»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
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Charity
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«Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Body,
Machines
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«Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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«Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; wisdom is humble that he k»
Author: William Cowper
(Poet)
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«Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does but encumber whom it seems to enrich.»
Author: William Cowper
(Poet)
| Keywords:
builds, encumber, encumbered, encumbering, encumbers, fitted, materials, smoothed, squared, unprofitable
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