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«Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.»
«The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by attaching itself to a larger conception of what constitutes the self.»
Author: Charles Horton Cooley
| Keywords:
aggrandizement, attaching, constitutes, morally, persistent, plastic, self-aggrandizement, vigorous
«Nothing is more revolting than the majority; for it consists of few vigorous predecessors, of knaves who accommodate themselves, of weak people who assimilate themselves, and the mass that toddles after them without knowing in the least what it wants»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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Majority
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accommodate, accommodated, accommodates, accommodating, assimilate, assimilated, assimilating, in the least, knaves, predecessors, revolting, toddle, toddles, toddling, vigorous
«Standing armies can never consist of resolute robust men; they may be well-disciplined machines, but they will seldom contain men under the influence of strong passions, or with very vigorous faculties.»
«One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action /the ability to pass directly from thought to action.»
«The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Passion,
Pride
| Keywords:
graft, grafted, grafting, grafts, inveterate, The Passions, vigorous, wounded
«Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Men
| Keywords:
conservatives, luxurious, vigorous
«The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
detection, disturb, dread, fallacies, operations, quickened, quickening, quickens, The Quickening, vigorous
«The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Life,
Love
| Keywords:
prosecution, prosecutions, undertaking, vigorous
«The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Mind
| Keywords:
operations, quickened, vigorous
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