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«She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world.»
Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
(Ambassador, Governor, Politician)
| Keywords:
candles, curse, glow, glowed, glows, the darkness, warmed
«I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.»
Author: P. G. Wodehouse
| About:
Writing
| Keywords:
a bit, bit, curse, cursed with, typewriter, typewriters
«Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race»
Author: William E. Gladstone
(Prime Minister, Statesman)
| About:
Selfishness
| Keywords:
curse, selfishness
«I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
curse, damage, ethical, greatly, modest, overcome, overestimate, overestimated, overestimates, services, speaking
«I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct for revenge for which no expedient is sufficiently poisonous, secret, subterranean, petty - I call it the one mortal blemish of mankind»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Christianity,
Mankind
| Keywords:
blemish, blemished, blemishes, curse, depravities, depravity, expedient, Expedients, instinct, intrinsic, mortal, petty, poisonous, revenge, subterranean, sufficiently
«I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots.»
«I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse, and in a Republican Government a greater curse than any other»
«Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
attaches, attaching, attach to, curse, cursed with, development, inaction, in progress, pause, paused, pausing, progress
«Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the 'blessing'' of idleness and won for us the ''curse'' of labor.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
Adam, benefactor, benefactors, curse, grateful, idleness
«My heart prays for him, though my tongue do curse.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
curse, cursed with, prays, though, tongue
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