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«Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. For jealous people, like dope-fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only disgust and loathing.»
«The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.»
«There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.»
«To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.»
«Night was a wonderful time in Brooklyn in the 1930s. Air conditioning was unknown except in movie houses, and so was television. There was nothing to keep one in the house. Furthermore, few people owned automobiles, so there was nothing to carry one away. That left the streets and the stoops. The very fullness served as an inhibition to crime.»
Author: Isaac Asimov
(Biochemist, Writer)
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air-conditioned, Air conditioning, automobiles, Brooklyn, fullness, furthermore, inhibition, inhibitions, in Brooklyn, In the House, owned, served, stoops
«To behold the wandering moon, / Riding near her highest noon, / Like one that had been led astray / Through the heav'n's wide pathless way; / And oft, as if her head she bowed, / Stooping through a fleecy cloud.»
«The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.»
«The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!»
«Such ever was love's way; to rise, it stoops»
«I will instruct my sorrows to be proud For grief is proud an't makes his owner stoop»
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