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«Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.»
«Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Dreams,
Evil,
Revolution,
Soul
| Keywords:
accordance, eager, lurks, mystics, propose, proposing, refashion, revolutionaries, The Shadow, Utopia, Utopias
«If I ever find a pitcher who has heat, a good curve, and a slider, I might seriously consider marrying him, or at least proposing.»
«Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
arithmetically, diminish, propose, proposing, sufferings, unjustly
«It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose»
Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt
(President)
| Keywords:
congress, dispose, disposes, dispose of, disposing, privilege, propose, proposing, The Congress, the President
«In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.»
Author: Jonathan Swift
(Author, Satirist)
| Keywords:
abilities, appearing, chimera, chimeras, choosing, confirmed, consult, eminent, employment, entered, entertained, extravagant, favorites, instructing, irrational, know the score, maintained, ministers, monarchs, persuading, placing, princes, professors, projector, projectors, proposing, public good, Public place, qualified, schemes, School of, services, the Monarch, The school
«I forget what killed it. I think it was her proposing to sacrifice the whole world for me. That is always a dreadful moment. It fills one with the terror of eternity.»
«I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.»
«I affirm, and would maintain, that true religion consists in proposing, as our great end, a growing likeness to the Supreme Being.»
«As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people. But I will be damned if I propose the be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel. . . .»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
beck, Call of, capitalistic, damned, demands, influenced, itinerant, moneyed, propose, proposing, scoundrel, The Be
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