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«I felt exactly like the man in the advertisement who has not devoted fifteen minutes a day to the study of the classics. If only (I thought) I had devoted fifteen minutes a day to the cultivation of the aesthetic attitude!»
«Self-discipline is an act of cultivation. It require you to connect today's actions to tomorrow's results. There's a season for sowing a season for reaping. Self-discipline helps you know which is which.»
Author: Gary Ryan Blair
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Actions, Act of, connect, cultivation, discipline, helps, reaped, reaping, reaps, require, results, season, self-discipline, self-disciplined, self help, sowing
«Science keeps down the weed of superstition not by logic, but by rendering the mental soil unfit for its cultivation»
«Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort.»
Author: Pierre de Coubertin
(Educator)
| About:
Sports
| Keywords:
cultivation, habitual, intensive, voluntary
«It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.»
«Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance»
«Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.»
Author: Daniel Webster
(Orator, Senator, Statesman)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
cultivation, farmers, founders, The Founders, tillage
«ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude --a privation appealing with a particular eloquence to all that is sympathetic in human nature. When young the orphan is commonly sent to an asylum, where by careful cultivation of its rudimentary sense of locality it is taught to know its place. It is then instructed in the arts of dependence and servitude and eventually turned loose to prey upon the world as a bootblack or scullery maid.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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bootblack, cultivation, deprived, deprived of, eloquence, filial, instructed, privation, privations, rudimentary, scullery
«Keeping away from all evil deeds, cultivation of life by doing good deeds and purification of mind from mental impurities.»
Author: Buddha
| Keywords:
cultivation, deeds, impurities, impurity, keeping, keep away, mental, purification
«Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.»
Author: John Ruskin
(Critic, Writer)
| About:
Ability
| Keywords:
abilities, compensate, compensated, compensates, compensating, cultivation, make up, natural, natural ability
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