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«Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.»
Author: Anne Lamott
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Hope
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«From compromise and things half done, Keep me with stern and stubborn pride; And when at last the fight is won, God, keep me still unsatisfied»
Author: Louis Untermeyer
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compromise, last half, stern, sterner, sternest, stubborn, unsatisfied, unsatisfying
«Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable»
«A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies form the only balance capable of preserving a free constitution against the enterprise of an aspiring prince»
Author: Edward Gibbon
(Historian)
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«Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of the facts and evidence»
Author: John Adams
(President)
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Passion
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«Hatred is so lasting and stubborn, that reconciliation on a sickbed certainly forebodes death»
Author: Jean de la Bruyere
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Hate
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forebodes, foreboding, reconciliation, sickbed, stubborn
«(She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house: / Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.) / So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him, / I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.»
«For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children: / That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children: / That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments: / And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.»
«And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they returned, and corrupted themselves more than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them; they ceased not from their own doings, nor from their stubborn way.»
«Bow, stubborn knees!»
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