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«The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.»
Author: Elizabeth Hardwick
| About:
Experience,
Gifts,
Knowledge,
Morality,
Passion,
Reading
| Keywords:
cheap, consoled, consoles, consoling, distracting, distracts, excites, illumination, illuminations, wide
«The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.»
Author: Christian Nevell Bovee
| About:
Age
| Keywords:
grandest, progressive, Progressives, societies, sweep, The Progressive, under it, wide, wiser
«The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.»
«The wide world is all about you; you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.»
«Under the wide and starry sky. Dig the grave and let me lie.»
Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
(Ambassador, Governor, Politician)
| Keywords:
dig, digging up, digs, dig in, dig into, dig out, dig up, dug, grave, The Grave, wide
«The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Happiness
| Keywords:
As Far, as far as possible, far, far and wide, friendlier, friendly, hostile, interest, interests, persons, possible, rather, reactions, secret, The Secret, wide, widest
«We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
Journalism
| Keywords:
extremely, Journalists, objective, topics, variety, wide
«The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
at leisure, crowd, crowding, crowd out, ease, eased, eases, easing, efficient, found, halo, laborer, leisure, really, saunter, sauntered, sauntering, surrounded, task, wide, widest, working day, work day
«To behold the wandering moon, / Riding near her highest noon, / Like one that had been led astray / Through the heav'n's wide pathless way; / And oft, as if her head she bowed, / Stooping through a fleecy cloud.»
«Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide: him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him, because he did not need it. We solicitously and apologetically caress and celebrate him, because he held on his way and scorned our disapprobation. The gods loved him because men hated him.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
apologetically, caress, caressed, Caresses, caressing, celebrate, crown, disapprobation, doors, embraces, evermore, flinging, flings, flung, goes out, greet, greeted, greets, hated, held, helping, honors, scorned, self help, solicitously, the gods, the self, tongues, welcome, wide
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