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«Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.»
«It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh.»
Author: Emile Durkheim
(Sociologist)
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Among the, classes, harsh, harsher, readily, renounced, renounces, renouncing
«If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day. and Catherine has a heart as deep as I have: the sea could be as readily contained in that horse-trough as her whole affection be monopolised by him.»
«I am here again, in a familiar place feeling something I've felt before, wondering why it's still here, why I didn't deal with it more fully before. But I'm glad I have a second chance at it ... and I know that if I need a third chance, I'll get it. I also know that if it comes up again, I'll recognize it sooner and deal with it more readily. This is growth. And, I am happy to be alive.»
Author: Jan Denise
(Author, Columnist, Speaker)
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«Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.»
«It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility. from The Scarlet Letter»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
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continually, gradual, hostility, human process, impede, impeded, impedes, impeding, irritation, irritations, readily, scarlet, Scarlet Letter, selfishness, The Scarlet Letter, transformed
«Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.»
«Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
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associations, readily, sense of smell, sentiments, The sense
«Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.»
«It may be true that there is no God here, but there must be one not far off, and at such a moment one feels His presence; which comes to the same as saying (and I readily give this sincere profession of faith): I believe in God, and that it is His wi»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
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far-off, not far, presence of God, profession, readily, sincere
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