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«If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.»
Author: Cavett Robert
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«He [Shakespeare] was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul . . . He was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards, and found her there.»
Author: John Dryden
(Critic, Dramatist, Poet)
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«Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon»
«Congress shall also create a tax code weighing more than the combined poundage of the largest member of the House and the largest member of the Senate, plus a standard musk ox.»
«Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives»
«`I weep for you,' the Walrus said: / `I deeply sympathize.' / With sobs and tears he sorted out / Those of the largest size, / Holding his pocket-handkerchief / Before his streaming eyes.»
Author: Lewis Carroll
(Logician, Mathematician, Novelist, Photographer)
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«Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern. .»
«Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest.»
Author: Robert H. Schuller
(Author, Entrepreneur, Reformed Church Minister)
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abilities, largest, scope, sphere
«Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms, and the greatest, and best of men is but an aphorism»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
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Science
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abstract, aphorism, aphorisms, exclusively, largest, portion, sciences, worthiest
«Health is the working man's fortune, and he ought to watch over it more than the capitalist over his largest investments. Health lightens the efforts of body and mind. It enables a man to crowd much work into a narrow compass. Without it, little can be earned, and that little by slow, exhausting toil.»
Author: William Ellery Channing
(Author, Clergyman)
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capitalist, investments, largest, lightens, working man
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