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«It is easy to see that, even in the freedom of early youth, an American girl never quite loses control of herself; she enjoys all permitted pleasures without losing her head about any of them, and her reason never lets the reins go, though it may oft»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
American Girl, an American, enjoys, lets, Lose Control, oft, permitted, rein, reined, reins
«Our heart oft times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as well as if one was awake.»
«I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men everywhere could be free.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
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Be Free, expressed, intend, modification, modifications, oft
«I never saw an oft-transplanted tree, Nor yet an oft-removed family, That throve so well as those that settled be»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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family tree, oft, removed, settled, throve, transplant, transplanted, transplanting, transplants
«Jesters do oft prove prophets»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Religion
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jester, Jesters, oft, Prophets, prove
«Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt»
«Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Expectation
| Keywords:
coldest, expectation, fails, hits, oft, promises, sits
«Neither a borrower, nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.»
«It comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
accent, accents, approbation, earned, oath, oft, pass off, sharply, swagger, swaggering, twang, twanged, twangs
«O, pardon me, my lord! it oft falls out,To have what we would have, we speak not what we mean.I something do excuse the thing I hate.»
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