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«Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters»
Author: Margaret Halsey
| About:
Humility
| Keywords:
characters, defects, engaging, forte, gradually, harmless, length, mild, milder, mildest, shortcoming, shortcomings, staring, to seem
«Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.»
Author: Ralph Ransom
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
giant, gradually, insignificant, once in a while, seemingly, series, stairway
«I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No! no! Tell a man whose house is on fire, to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hand of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; -- but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest -- I will not equivocate -- I will not excuse -- I will not retreat a single inch -- AND I WILL BE HEARD.»
Author: William Lloyd Garrison
(Abolitionist, Activist, Journalist)
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alarm, babe, Cause for Alarm, earnest, equivocate, extricate, extricated, gradually, harsh, inch, in earnest, moderate, moderately, on fire, ravisher, rescue, rescues, rescuing, retreat, uncompromising, urge, with moderation
«In this Court dissents have gradually become majority opinions»
«I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light»
«Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
age, age of, Age to Age, approach, be born, Born, come of age, could, eighteen, eighties, eighty, gradually, happier, infinitely, life, make happy, only, The Age, would-be, would
«If you lose your temper, your sound sleep will go, and you will have to use a tranquilizer or sleeping pills? Then gradually, more white hair, wrinkles.»
Author: Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama
| Keywords:
gradually, hair, pilled, pills, sleeping, sleeping pill, temper, the Pill, tranquilizer, tranquilizers, wrinkles
«It is as if there were a natural law which ordained that to achieve this end, to refine the curve of a piece of furniture, or a ship's keel, or the fuselage of an airplane, until gradually it partakes of the elemental purity of the curve of the human»
«I have often been afraid, but I wouldn't give in to it. I made myself act as though I was not afraid, and gradually my fear disappeared.»
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
(President)
| Keywords:
act as, disappeared, disappearing, give in, gradually, though, to it
«It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
| About:
Age,
Experience,
Youth
| Keywords:
gains, gradually, loses, pity, youth
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