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«That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.»
Author: Albert Pike
(Journalist, Lawyer, Soldier)
| Keywords:
ache, ached, advance, causes, commence, commenced, commences, darkness, error, fill, gladness, happen, imperfection, improve, on trial, pass, pass through, reach, the darkness, The Light, The Trial, Trials, trial and error, triumph, yield, yield up
«There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.»
«Walking away from something means believing for something more. And if I want something more, I must believe it's out there (or in here). Would God give me a desire that he could not fill? Or am I to suppose another source?»
«The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.»
Author: Tryon Edwards
(Theologian)
| About:
Education,
Learning,
Thinking
| Keywords:
accumulation, accumulations, discipline, fill, furnish, furnished with, furnishing, powers, train
«The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
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fill, heights, imagine, Sisyphus, struggle
«The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.»
Author: Herbert Spencer
(Philosopher)
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effects, fill, folly, fools, shielded, shielding, The Ultimate, ultimate
«There is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Sex
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at large, broadcast, broadcasting, broadcasts, fill, hardly, horror, large, sexual, surprise
«To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
at present, civilization, fill, intelligently, leisure, level, product, reached
«The world's a theater, the earth a stage, Which God and nature do with actors fill»
«To fill the hour, that is happiness; to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
approval, by the hour, crevice, crevices, fill, fill in, fill out, happiness, hour, leave, repentance, that is, to be filled, with approval
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