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«God's promises are like the stars; the darker the night the brighter they shine»
Author: David Nicholas
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«An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men»
Author: Ignazio Silon
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«For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service»
Author: John Burroughs
(Essayist, Naturalist)
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currencies, currency, for anything, paper currency, promises, self-sacrifice, self-sacrificing
«Christianity promises to make men free; it never promises to make them independent.»
«Christianity simply does not make sense until you have faced the sort of facts I have been describing. Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not know they have done anything to repent of and who do not feel that they need forgiveness.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
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«Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich: something for nothing»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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gambled, gambles, gambling, performs, promises
«Broken promises don't upset me. I just think, why did they believe me?»
«An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.»
«Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetic»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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advertisements, eloquence, magnificence, numerous, pathetic, peruse, perused, perusing, promises, sublime
«Being of no power to make his wishes good:His promises fly so beyond his stateThat what he speaks is all in debt; he owesFor every word.»
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