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Letter "H" » hindrance
«The man who gives up accomplishes nothing and is only a hindrance. The man who does not give up can move mountains.»
«Trials, temptations, disappointments - all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy.»
Author: James Buckham
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«A certain degree of physical harmony and comfort is necessary, but above a certain level it becomes a hindrance instead of a help. Therefore the ideal of creating an unlimited number of wants and satisfying them seems to be a delusion and a snare.»
Author: Mohandas Gandhi
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creating, delusion, hindrance, hindrances, satisfying, snare, unlimited
«Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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Luxury,
Mankind
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comforts, elevation, hindrance, hindrances, indispensable, luxuries, positive, so-called, The So
«The real democratic idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other, but that every one shall have liberty, without hindrance, to be what God made him»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
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Democracy,
Ideas
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«Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance»
«Wicked competitors means anything that acts as a hindrance in the path of man's material and spiritual growth. »
«I do not believe they are right who say that the defects of famous men should be ignored. I think it is better that we should know them. Then, though we are conscious of having faults as glaring as theirs, we can believe that that is no hindrance to our achieving also something of their virtues.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
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achieving, glaring, hindrance, hindrances, ignored
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