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«Though tea and gin have spread their baneful influence over this island, and his majesty's other dominions, yet, you may be well assured, that the governors of the Foundling Hospital will exert their utmost skill and vigilance, to prevent the childre»
Author: Jonas Hanway
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assured, baneful, be well, dominions, exert, foundling, foundling hospital, gin, gins, governors, His Majesty, hospital, majesty, utmost
«To cure the mind's wrong bias, Spleen, / Some recommend the bowling-green; / Some, hilly walks; all, exercise; / Fling but a stone, the giant dies. / Laugh and be well.»
Author: Matthew Green
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be well, bowling green, fling, hilly, recommend, spleen, The Giant
«The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.»
Author: Anne Sophie Swetchine
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be well
«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.»
«Taking food alone tends to make one hard and coarse. Those accustomed to it must lead a Spartan life if they are not to go downhill. Hermits have observed, if for only this reason, a frugal diet. For it is only in company that eating is done justice; food must be divided and distributed if it is to be well received.»
Author: Walter Benjamin
(Essayist, Theologian, Writer)
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accustomed, be well, coarse, diet, distributed, downhill, frugal, hermit, hermits, observed, Spartan, tends, tends to
«Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him: / But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.»
«There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.»
«The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable. The elements have no forbearance. The fire burns, the water drowns, the air consumes, the earth buries. And perhaps it would be well for our race if the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Man were as inevitable as the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Nature /were Man as unerring in his judgments as Nature.»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
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be well, buries, Burns, consequence, consumes, drowns, elements, forbearance, inseparable, judgments, Laws of nature, No Mercy, The Elements, the laws of nature, unerring
«The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely it is of great use to a young man, before he sets out for that country, full of mazes, windings, and turnings, to have at least a general map of it, made by some experienced traveler.»
«To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Success
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also, be well, stupid, succeed, well-mannered
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