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«Shy and proud men are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures of low character. For in the intimacies which are formed by shy men, they do not choose, but are chosen.»
Author: Henry Taylor
(Author)
| Keywords:
fall into, formed, intimacies, liable, parasites, shy, shyest, Too Shy
«There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
Politics
| Keywords:
current, elucidation, liable, maxim, right and wrong, standard, The Current
«Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.»
Author: John Lennon
(Political activist, Singer, Songwriter)
| Keywords:
ends, expressing, insane, liable, maniac, maniacal, maniacs, objectives, People Express, put away, run by, society
«They who are afflicted with it, are seized while they are walking, (more especially if it be up hill, and soon after eating) with a painful and most disagreeable sensation in the breast, which seems as if it would extinguish life, if it were to increase or to continue; but the moment they stand still, all this uneasiness vanishes. . . . In all other respects, patients are, at the beginning of this disorder, perfectly well. . . . Males are most liable to this disease, especially such as have past their fiftieth year.»
Author: William Heberden
| Keywords:
afflicted, disagreeable, disorder, eating disorder, extinguish, fiftieth, liable, patients, respects, seized, sensation, stand still, uneasiness
«The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
Government,
Power
| Keywords:
abuse, abuse of power, liable, lodged, lodges, lodging
«Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them, they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.»
«I belive that there is a subtile magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright. It is not indifferent to us which way we walk. There is a right way; but we are very liable from heedlessness and stupidity to take the wrong one. We would fain take that walk, never yet taken by us through this actual world, which is perfectly symbolical of the path which we love to travel in the interior and ideal world; and sometimes, no doubt, we find it difficult to choose our direction, because it does not yet exist distinctly in our idea.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Direction
| Keywords:
actual, aright, distinctly, fain, heedlessness, indifferent, Interior, liable, no doubt, symbolical, Take That, unconsciously, yield
«I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.»
«I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between idea and reality. It is by this kind of observation that we grow daily less liable to be disappointed.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
compare, disappointed, expectation, from time to time, instructive, liable, observation, register, registered, registering, registers, The Register
«Pride and jealousy there was in his eye, for his life had been spent in asserting rights which were constantly liable to invasion; and the prompt, fiery, and resolute disposition of the man, had been kept constantly upon the alert by the circumstances of his situation.»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
alert, asserting, disposition, fiery, invasion, liable, Pride and, prompt, prompter, resolute
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