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«A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.»
Author: Pearl Bailey
(Entertainer)
| About:
Ambition,
Love
| Keywords:
ambition, blessings, ever so, with ambition
«He dropped into the Potomac, ever so casually, a few great thoughts. One can only hope their ripples will reach out to all the limousined and tuxedoed policymakers.»
«And oh, what a mercy it is that these women do not exercise their powers oftener! We can't resist them, if they do. Let them show ever so little inclination, and men go down on their knees at once: old or ugly, it is all the same. And this I set down as a positive truth. A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry whom she likes. Only let us be thankful that the darlings are like the beasts of the field, and don't know their own power. They would overcome us entirely if they did.»
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
(Author, Novelist)
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all the same, beasts, darlings, ever so, go down, go down on, hump, humped, inclination, knees, oftener, set down, thankful, The Field, the Hump
«Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.»
Author: Arnold Toynbee
(Historian)
| Keywords:
discouraged, earthly life, embitter, embittered, embitters, ever so, smallness, splendidly
«Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men than men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it. But, if men be bad, let the government be ever so good, they will endeavor to warp and spoil it to their turn.»
Author: William Penn
(Founder)
| Keywords:
clocks, cure, depend, depend upon, endeavor, ever so, governments, ill, motion, moved, ruined, spoil, the government, warp, warped, warping, wherefore
«And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it.»
«His success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down into the dust»
«Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| About:
Freedom
| Keywords:
beings, comprehension, connote, delight, deprives, depriving, err, errs, ever so, experienced, human beings, human right, passes, precious
«Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
| Keywords:
all four, corners, ever so, Four Corners, lightly, perceptible, scarcely, spider, spider web, web
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