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«The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear»
«The men whom I have seen succeed best in life always have been cheerful and hopeful men; who went about their business with a smile on their faces; and took the changes and chances of this mortal life like men; facing rough and smooth alike as it came.»
Author: Charles Kingsley
(Clergyman, Teacher, Writer)
| Keywords:
alike, business life, chances, cheerful, faces, facing, hopeful, mortal, mortal man, Mortal Men, rough, smooth, The Men, took
«The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?»
Author: Dan Quayle
(Vice President)
| Keywords:
maturity, paused, puppies, puppy, rough, sense of responsibility, The Nation, the President
«There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth»
Author: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
| About:
Truth,
Vanity
| Keywords:
agonized, agonizing, application, rough, skin, vanity
«People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.»
«Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| Keywords:
get at, iconoclasm, rough
«The traveler that resolutely follows a rough and winding path will sooner reach the end of his journey than he that is always changing his direction, and wastes the hour of daylight in looking for smoother ground and shorter passages.»
«These high wild hills and rough uneven waysDraw out our miles and make them wearisome;But yet your fair discourse hath been as sugar,Making the hard way sweet and delectable.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
delectable, discourse, discourses, discoursing, draw, drawn-out, draw out, hills, miles, rough, sugar, sugared, The Discourses, The Hard, The Sugar, uneven, wearisome
«There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
divinities, divinity, hew, hewing, rough-hew, rough, shapes
«Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.»
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