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«Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition . . .»
Author: Amelia E. Barr
(Journalist, Writer)
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Solitude
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comforts, condition, counseled, counseling, counsels, hurried, hurries, hurry, potential, potentials, receive, solitude, turmoil, under, voices
«The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards; they will be dissipated, lost and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence»
Author: Marie Edgeworth
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Resolution
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dissipate, dissipated, execute, hurry, indolence, resolutions, scurry, scurrying, slough, sunk
«Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms. The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgment shall still have the last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision.»
Author: Charlotte Bronte
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burst, casting, casting vote, chasms, furiously, heathens, hurry, Last Judgment, last word, rage, rein, reined, reins, sits, sorts, The Last Judgment, The Last Word, The Passions, vote in
«The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure that it will kill you too, but there will be no special hurry.»
«Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many things which perhaps are of no importance, that it cannot but see something feeble in a civilization which smiles as it refuses to make the battlefield the test of excellence.»
Author: James Joyce
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adventurer, adventurers, battlefield, battlefields, bequeath, bequeathed, combat, eater, eaters, feeble, fierce, hunters, hurry, refuses
«There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.»
Author: Marie Curie
(Physicist)
| About:
Scientists
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Establishing, hunt, hunt down, hurry, sadistic, scientists
«This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims.»
«Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.»
«The superficiality of the American is the result of his hustling. It needs leisure to think things out; it needs leisure to mature. People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
| Keywords:
hurry, hustle, hustled, hustles, hustling, puerility, superficiality
«Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.»
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