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«A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.»
«If you must commit suicide... always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of death, should never be lost sight of.»
«This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought. Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land. Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.»
«The greatest problem with women is how to contrive that they should seem our equals»
«In every deed of mischief he [Comenus] had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.»
Author: Edward Gibbon
(Historian)
| Keywords:
contrive, contrives, contriving, deed, execute, mischief, resolve
«Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Taxation
| Keywords:
add to, bungler, bunglers, compositions, contrive, projector, projectors, taxing
«How can you contrive to write so even?»
«War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
| About:
Peace,
War
| Keywords:
breathing, breathing time, contrive, contriving, execute, furnishes, leisure, leisure time, prince
«If a book comes from the heart it will contrive to reach other hearts. All art and author craft are of small account to that.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| Keywords:
account, contrive, contrives, contriving, craft, crafted, crafts, from the heart, The Craft, to that
«Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| About:
Health
| Keywords:
contrive, contrives, contriving, ill health, manage
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