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«I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as king as I would wish to do without the help of the woman I love.»
«For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be? / There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.»
«Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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abatement, allowing, discharge, grievous, The Only Ones
«EMOTION, n. A prostrating disease caused by a determination of the heart to the head. It is sometimes accompanied by a copious discharge of hydrated chloride of sodium from the eyes.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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accompanied, chloride, copious, discharge, heart disease, hydrated, prostrate, prostrated, prostrates, prostrating, sodium
«The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty.»
Author: Friedrich von Schiller
(Dramatist, Historian, Philosopher, Poet)
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Happiness,
Life
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discharge
«Avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts which unavoidable wars have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen whic»
Author: George Washington
(President)
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Debt
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burthen, debts, discharge, exertions, likewise, occasioned, occasions, posterity, shunning, throwing, unavoidable, vigorous
«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
«My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.»
«It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.»
«Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow»
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