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Letter "G" » grand
«The grand thing about the human mind is that it can turn its own tables and see meaninglessness as ultimate meaning»
«Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| Keywords:
essentials, grand, This Life
«Sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely , racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just being alive is a grand thing.»
Author: Agatha Christie
(Detective, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Sorrow
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acutely, despairingly, grand, racked, racking, racks, the rack, wildly
«Scores of Iraqi exiles met in London to discuss ways to overthrow Saddam Hussein in a grand gathering dubbed the 'Iraqi Military Alliance Meeting.' Of course, these people are no longer Iraqi, they have no military, and there is no alliance. But they did have a meeting.»
«?The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.?»
«The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.»
«The great difference between those who succeed and those who fail does not consist in the amount of work done by each but in the amount of intelligent work. Many of those who fail most ignominiously do enough to achieve grand success but they labor haphazardly at whatever they are assigned, building up with one hand to tear down with the other. They do not grasp circumstances and change them into opportunities. They have no faculty for turning honest defeats into telling victories. With ability enough and ample time, the major ingredients of success, they are forever throwing back and forth an empty shuttle and the real web of their life is never woven.»
Author: Og Mandino
(Essayist, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
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«Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of Solitaire. It is a grand passion.»
«The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.»
«There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.»
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