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«Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think.»
«No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them.»
«That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.»
«Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.»
«Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.»
«Men and women will retain their sex in heaven»
«It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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divest, divested, rank, relative, retain
«No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form»
«Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.»
Author: Thomas Fuller
(Clergyman, Writer)
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and others, complain, defect, grasping, Order of, perspicuity, regularities, regularity, retain, very much
«No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may retain entirely unaffected for the better.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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advantage, concrete, entirely, maxims, reservoir, reservoirs, retain, retaining, sentiments, unaffected
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