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«Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.»
Author: Abigail Adams
(First Lady, Writer)
| About:
Learning
| Keywords:
ardor, attained, attended, by chance, diligence, sought
«Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.»
Author: Abigail Adams
(First Lady, Writer)
| About:
Learning
| Keywords:
ardor, attained, by chance, diligence, sought
«If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search.I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor.»
«He who sows the ground with care and diligence acquires a greater stock of religious merit than he could gain by the repetition of ten thousand prayers»
Author: Zoroaster
| About:
Caring,
Diligence,
Merit,
Religion
| Keywords:
acquires, diligence, gain ground, repetition, stock, ten thousand
«I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.»
Author: Charles Dickens
| About:
Habit
| Keywords:
at a time, concentrate, determination, diligence, habits, punctuality, subject
«LAOCOON, n. A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that name and his two sons in the folds of two enormous serpents. The skill and diligence with which the old man and lads support the serpents and keep them up to their work have been justly regarded as one of the noblest artistic illustrations of the mastery of human intelligence over brute inertia.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
antique, antiques, artistic, brute, diligence, folds, illustration, illustrations, inertia, justly, Laocoon, piece of work, representing, scripture, serpents, that name, The old man
«Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life (Proverbs 4:23).»
«In executing the duties of my present important station, I can promise nothing but purity of intentions, and, in carrying these into effect, fidelity and diligence»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| Keywords:
carrying, diligence, Duties of, executing, fidelity, intentions, station
«I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.»
«If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
counsel, diligence, fixed, performed, perseverance, skill
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