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«Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error»
«Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie. The rude shocks and uncomfortably constraining influences of life disappear among graceful women and poetical men; they are the most deceptive beings in creation; distrust and doubt cannot stand before them; they create what they imagine; if they do not lie to others, they do to their own hearts; for illusion is their element, fiction their vocation, and pleasures in appearance their happiness. Beware of grace in woman, and poetry in man -- weapons the more dangerous because the least dreaded!»
Author: Marquis De Custine
(Writer)
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constrain, constraining, deceptive, distrust, dreaded, graceful, influences, poetical, rude, shocks, uncomfortably, vocation
«People have become so empty that they can't even entertain themselves. They have to pay other people to amuse them, to make them laugh, to try to make them feel warm and happy and comfortable for a few minutes, to try to lose that awful, frightening, hollow feeling--that terrible, dreaded feeling of being lost and alone.»
Author: Billy Graham
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amuse, dreaded, entertain, frightening, hollow, hollowing, hollows, warm
«Dying is an integral part of life, as natural and predictable as being born. But whereas birth is cause for celebration, death has become a dreaded and unspeakable issue to be avoided by every means possible in our modern society. Perhaps it is that»
Author: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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Death and dying
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avoided, cause of death, celebration, celebrations, dreaded, integral, integral part, issue, modern society, natural causes, predictable, The Celebration, unspeakable
«It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.»
«CREDITOR, n. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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creditor, desolating, dreaded, dwelling, financial, incursion, incursions, straits
«I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.»
«There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say»
«Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval - a thing which, to the general run of the human race, is more dreaded than wolves and death»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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Relationships
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disapproval, dreaded, The General, wolves
«There was a demon named 'Vala' whom Indra had killed. Indra was able to kill this dreaded demon only because he had attained divine powers by practicing self- restraint. »
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