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«Successful men usually snatch success from seeming failure. If they know there is such a word as defeat they will not admit it. They may be whipped, but they are not aware of it. That is why they succeed.»
«Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.»
«Do thou snatch treasures from my lips, and I'll take kingdoms back from thine»
Author: Richard Brinsley Sheridan
(Orator, Playwright, Politician)
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kingdoms, snatch, snatches, snatching, Thine, treasures
«Our planet / is poorly equipped / for delight./ One must snatch / gladness / from the days that are. / In this life / it's not difficult to die. / To make life / is more difficult by far.»
Author: Vladimir Mayakovsky
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by far, equipped, gladness, our planet, poorly, snatch, snatches, snatching
«The genius of capitalism consists precisely in its lack of morality. Unless he is rich enough to hire his own choir, a capitalist is a fellow who, by definition, can ill afford to believe in anything other than the doctrine of the bottom line. Deprive a capitalist of his God-given right to lie and cheat and steal, and the poor sap stands a better than even chance of becoming one of the abominable wards of the state from whose grimy fingers the Reagan Administration hopes to snatch the ark of democracy.»
Author: Lewis H. Lapham
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abominable, deprive, even chance, grimy, in its own right, Reagan, Reagan administration, snatch, The Choir, wards
«Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day.»
«[Gatsby] stretched out his hand desperately as if to snatch only a wisp of air, to save a fragment of the spot that she had made lovely for him. But it was all going by too fast...and he knew that he had lost that part of it, the freshest and the best, forever.»
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
(Writer)
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desperately, fragment, freshest, snatch, stretched, stretched out, wisp
«Let us my friends snatch our opportunity form the passing day.»
«Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it»
«They hear a voice in every wind, / And snatch a fearful joy.»
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