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«Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error»
Author: Andrew Jackson
(President)
| Keywords:
acknowledge, instantly, reservation, Reservations, salt, slightly, stick, stick up, stuck-up
«I thought it would be better to starve slowly over there than instantly over here.»
«A child's hand in yours-what tenderness it arouses, what power it conjures. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.»
Author: Marjorie Holmes
| About:
Power,
Strength,
Tenderness,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
arouses, conjure, conjured, conjures, conjure up, conjuring, instantly, tenderness, touchstone, touchstones
«Every woman is wrong until she cries, and then she is right, instantly»
Author: Thomas C. Haliburton
(Writer)
| About:
Men and Women
| Keywords:
and then, cries, instantly, She, woman, wrong
«I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy»
Author: George Sand
| Keywords:
instantly
«And when they came to Jesus, they besought him instantly, saying, That he was worthy for whom he should do this: / For he loveth our nation, and he hath built us a synagogue.»
«And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God, unto our fathers: / Unto which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to come. For which hope's sake, king Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews.»
«Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment withoutwhich it instantly expires. But it could not be less folly toabolish liberty, which is essential to political life, becauseit nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilationof air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts tofire its destructive agency.»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
Liberty
| Keywords:
abolish, agency, aliment, annihilation, destructive, expire, expires, expiring, faction, factions, folly, imparting, imparts, instantly, nourishes, political liberty, The Agency
«Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited reliance upon human promises? That is a peculiar condition of society which enables a whole nation to instantly recognize point and meaning in the familiar newspaper anecdote, which puts into the mouth of a distinguished speculator in lands and mines this remark: -- ''I wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two millions of dollars.''»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
anecdote, cent, distinguished, enables, Golden Age, golden mean, instantly, lands, land mines, million years ago, mines, Modern Age, modern society, mutual, newspaper, peculiar, promised land, reliance, remark, speculator, speculators, The Golden Age, The Modern Age, unlimited
«Accustom your children constantly to this; if a thing happened at one window and they, when relating it, say that it happened at another, do not let it pass, but instantly check them; you do not know where deviation from truth will end»
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