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Letter "P" » paltry
«You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.»
«My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve»
«To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!»
Author: Andre Breton
(Critic, Editor, Founder, Poet)
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doddering, eyed, grotesque, grotesques, outcome, paltry, polluted, pollutes, polluting, respect to, squint-eyed, squint, squinting, squints, stake, summoned, to the full, vile, wager, wagered
«One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Action,
Life,
Risk-taking
| Keywords:
crowded, decorum, observances, one hour, paltry, to the full
«One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
crowded, decorum, marsh, marshes, observances, one hour, paltry, sluggish, to the full, waters
«How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do.»
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
ceaselessly, countless, despite, enigma, enigmas, ephemeral, exceptions, lucidity, paltry, philosophize, philosophized, philosophizes, rarest, The Normal
«What a person thinks on his own without being stimulated by the thoughts and experiences of the other people is even in the best case rather paltry and monotonous»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
case, experiences, monotonous, on his own, paltry, stimulate, stimulated, stimulates
«There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere man»
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Fidelity,
Friendship,
Love,
Men
| Keywords:
brute, directly, fidelities, fidelity, frequent, gossamer, occasion, paltry, sacrificing, self-sacrificing, unselfish
«When I see throughout this book, called the Bible, a history of the grossest vices and a collection of the most paltry and contemptible tales and stories, I could not so dishonor my Creator by calling it by His name»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| About:
Books
| Keywords:
calling, collection, contemptible, dishonor, dishonored, dishonoring, dishonors, grossest, gross out, History of the, paltry, tales, throughout
«Amsterdam did not answer our expectations; it is a kind of paltry, rubbishy Venice»
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