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«Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase»
Author: John Balguy
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Contentment
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contentment, expense, pearl, Pearl of Great Price, procured, procures, procuring, purchase, ten thousand
«My chief responsibilities have been described as soliciting and procuring. The illegal variety would be easier. And it certainly would be more profitable.»
Author: Rebecca Greer
| About:
Responsibility
| Keywords:
described, illegal, procures, procuring, profitable, responsibilities, variety
«Agriculture for an honorable and highminded man, is the best of all occupations or arts by which men procure the means of living»
Author: Xenophon
| About:
Art,
Living,
Meaning
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agriculture, best of all, high-minded, highminded, honorable, occupations, procure, procured, procures, procuring
«Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.»
«Prayer carries us half way to God, fasting brings us to the door of His palace, and alms-giving procures us admission.»
«If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ''our'' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits which I have not shared and probably will not share.»
«Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.»
Author: George Washington
(President)
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army, discipline, esteem, formidable, numbers, procured, procures, procuring, small number
«Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rule of composition; it produces vigilance rather than elevation; rather prevents loss than procures advantage; and often miscarriages, but seldom reaches either power or honor.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
composition, elevation, miscarriage, miscarriages, operates, procures, prudence
«Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect»
«O sir to willful men - The injuries that they themselves procure, Must be their schoolmasters»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
injuries, procure, procured, procures, procuring, schoolmasters, sir, willful
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