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«Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for .success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
| About:
Hope
| Keywords:
enterprises, heading, heads of state, head of state, invest, obviously, state of mind, The State of the World, willingness
«Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed at»
Author: Gustave Flaubert
(Novelist)
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enterprises, humiliate, humiliated, humiliating, idiots
«He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Family
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enterprises, hostage, hostages, impediments
«(Liberty) is indeed little less than a name, where the Government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction, to confine each member of society within the limits prescribed by the law, and to maintain all in the secure and tranquil enjoyme»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| About:
Freedom,
Liberty
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enterprises, faction, factions, feeble, member, prescribed, prescribes, tranquil, withstand
«I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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Words
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beware, clothes, enterprises, require, wearer, wearers
«Part of my plan has been to try to pleasantly remind adults of what they once were themselves, and of how they felt and thought and talked, and what queer enterprises they sometimes engaged in»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Adulthood
| Keywords:
adults, engaged, enterprises, pleasantly, queer, queerer, queerest, remind, talked
«Great enterprises usually promise vastly more than they perform.»
«All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.»
«Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
advantages, enterprises, hazard, magnifies, magnifying, undertaken
«No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil authority.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
Against the man, authority, civil, civil authority, civil right, conscience, constitution, constitutions, dearer, enterprises, ought, protects, provision, rights
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