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«Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us, as those that are not wholly wrong; as no watches so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right»
«In the middle of the road of my life I awoke in the dark wood where the true way was wholly lost»
Author: Dante Alighieri
(Author, Poet)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
awoke, In The Dark, in the middle, middle of the road, wholly, wood
«From what I have said of the natives of New Holland they may appear to some to be the most wretched people upon earth; but in reality they are far happier than we Europeans, being wholly unacquainted not only with the superfluous, but»
Author: James Cook
| Keywords:
Europeans, happier, Holland, in reality, Natives, superfluous, The Europeans, unacquainted, unacquainted with, wholly, wretched
«Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Affection,
Love
| Keywords:
affections, caressed, Caresses, caressing, expressions, restrained, roots, The Roots, wholly
«In the absence of will-power the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.»
«It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.»
«I can live only wholly with you or not at all»
«If we could sniff or swallow something that would, for five or six hours each day, abolish our solitude as individuals, atone us with our fellows in a glowing exaltation of affection and make life in all its aspects seem not only worth living, but divinely beautiful and significant, and if this heavenly, world-transfiguring drug were of such a kind that we could wake up next morning with a clear head and an undamaged constitution -- then, it seems to me, all our problems (and not merely the one small problem of discovering a novel pleasure) would be wholly solved and earth would become paradise.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| Keywords:
abolish, affection, aspects, atone, atones, constitution, discovering, divinely, drug, each day, exaltation, fellows, Five Days, glowing, heavenly, individuals, novel, paradise, significant, six, sniff, sniffed, sniffing, sniffs, solved, swallow, undamaged, wake, wake up, wholly
«I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood, however virtuous in intent, can be anything but vicious»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
Discovery of, falsehood, intent, trivial, trumpeting, vicious, virtuous, wholly
«Do not hope wholly to reason away your troubles; do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Trouble
| Keywords:
breaking away, break away, break in, feed, feed upon, fix, imperceptibly, intervals, troubles, wholly, with attention
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