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«Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world - making the most of one's best.»
Author: Harry Emerson Fosdick
| Keywords:
adventurous, bundle, bundles, bundling, daring, handicaps, rebellion, undertake
«That they (the powers of heaven) may be conferred upon us, it is true; but when we undertake to cover? our sins, or to gratify our pride, our vain ambition, or to exercise control or dominion? or compulsion upon the souls of the children of men, in any degree of unrighteousness, behold, the heavens withdraw? themselves; the Spirit of the Lord is grieved»
Author: Joseph Smith
(Religious leader)
| About:
Religion
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Behold the Man, compulsion, conferred, cover, dominion, gratify, grieved, heavens, The Children of Men, undertake, unrighteousness, withdraw
«It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
analysis, obvious, undertake, unusual
«Laws undertake to punish only overt acts»
Author: Charles de Montesquieu
(Philosopher, Politician)
| About:
Justice,
Punishment
| Keywords:
overt, punish, undertake
«In every affair consider what precedes and what follows, and then undertake it»
«Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.»
Author: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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undertake
«People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
aptitudes, constituted, undertake
«In each age men of genius undertake the ascent. From below, the world follows them with their eyes. These men go up the mountain, enter the clouds, disappear, reappear, People watch them, mark them. They walk by the side of precipices. They daringly pursue their road. See them aloft, see them in the distance; they are but black specks. On they go. The road is uneven, its difficulties constant. At each step a wall, at each step a trap. As they rise the cold increases. They must make their ladder, cut the ice and walk on it., hewing the steps in haste. A storm is raging. Nevertheless they go forward in their madness. The air becomes difficult to breath. The abyss yawns below them. Some fall. Others stop and retrace their steps; there is a sad weariness. The bold ones continue. They are eyed by the eagles; the lightning plays about them: the hurricane is furious. No matter, they persevere.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
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«Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| Keywords:
shirk, shirked, shirking, undertake
«No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise»
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