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«The only kinds of fights worth fighting are those you are going to lose, because somebody has to fight them and lose and lose and lose until someday, somebody who believes as you do wins. In order for somebody to win an important, major fight 100 years hence, a lot of other people have got to be willing - for the sheer fun and joy of it - to go right ahead and fight, knowing you're going to lose. You mustn't feel like a martyr. You've got to enjoy it.»
«There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence.»
«Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise; but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; bliss is the same in subject or in king.»
Author: Alexander Pope
(Poet)
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bliss, circumstance, common law, confessed, First Law, happier, hence, infer, inferred, infers, shocks
«No one likes having offended another person; hence everyone feels so much better if the other person doesn't show he's been offended. Nobody likes being confronted by a wounded spaniel. Remember that. It is much easier patiently -- and tolerantly -- to avoid the person you have injured than to approach him as a friend. You need courage for that.»
Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein
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approach, confronted, hence, injured, offended, patiently, spaniel, tolerantly, wounded
«Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference»
«There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.»
Author: Swami Sivananda
(Founder, Monk, Physician)
| About:
Contentment
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acquire, contentment, craving, cravings, hence, no end
«The allurement that women hold out to men is precisely the allurement that Cape Hatteras holds out to sailors: they are enormously dangerous and hence enormously fascinating»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
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Men and Women
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allurement, allurements, cape, Cape Hatteras, enormously, fascinate, fascinates, fascinating, hence, holds, hold out, out to, precisely, sailors
«O divine art of subtlety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible and hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands.»
«These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.»
«Men must endure, their going hence even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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coming, endure, even as, hence, hither, ripeness
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