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«Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.»
Author: Franklin Pierce
(President)
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«Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.»
Author: Heraclitus of Ephesus
| About:
Character
| Keywords:
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«By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.»
Author: Titus Lucretius Carus
| About:
Death and dying,
Life
| Keywords:
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«There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.»
«O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief... for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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«Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.»
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
| Keywords:
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«Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
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