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«The awakenings of remorse, virtuous shame and indignation, the glow of moral approbation if they do not lead to action, grow less and less vivid every time they occur, till at length the mind grows absolutely callous»
Author: Anna Letitia Barbauld
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approbation, at length, awakenings, callous, glow, indignation, remorse, The Glow, vivid
«We ask advice, but we mean approbation.»
«The consciousness of having attempted faithfully to discharge my duty, and the approbation of my Country will be a sufficient recompense for my Services»
Author: George Washington
(President)
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approbation, attempted, discharge, discharged, discharging, faithfully, My Country, recompense, services
«When, in the decline of Life, I gratify the fond wish of my heart in retiring from public labors, and find the language of approbation and fervent prayers for future happiness following that event, my heart expands with gratitude and my feelings beco»
«The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
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«Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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approbation, corn, earn, epics, planting, the senses
«Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as the day declines, to find that it has been spent with the approbation of mankind.»
«You have to act well to receive His approbation When the curtain falls ?»
«It comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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accent, accents, approbation, earned, oath, oft, pass off, sharply, swagger, swaggering, twang, twanged, twangs
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