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«No other people have a government more worthy of their respect and love or a land so magnificent in extent, so pleasant to look upon, and so full of generous suggestion to enterprise and labor.»
Author: Benjamin Harrison
(President)
| Keywords:
enterprise, extent, look upon, magnificent, suggestion
«It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.»
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Writer)
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by no means, existence, fancied, fanciest, fancy, fancying, irrational, look upon
«God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.»
Author: George MacDonald
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cloud, desired, electricity, feeblest, haven, havens, look upon, resource, rocks, storms, The Rocks, unfinished
«Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distorts the truth; deforms the mind; fetters the will.»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
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deform, deforms, distorting, distorts, fetter, fettered, fetters, fitting, fittings, harsh, harsher, ill, inevitably, in fetters, look upon
«Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred»
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
extent, look upon, quintessence, shorten, shortening, shortens
«I consider the positions of kings and rulers as that of dust motes. I observe treasures of gold and gems as so many bricks and pebbles. I look upon the finest silken robes as tattered rags. I see myriad worlds of the universe as small seeds of fruit, and the greatest lake on Earth as a drop of oil on my foot.»
«I have learned from an early age to abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men»
«Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
blackest, British, depriving, India, look upon, rule in, the British
«A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
ailment, bodily, look upon, symptom, The Spiritual
«He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again»
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