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«It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat.»
Author: Richard Hofstadter
| About:
Intelligence
| Keywords:
for the most part, intellectuals, ironic, outsider, outsiders, Political history, scapegoat, scapegoats
«For mountain and stream, tree and leaf, root and blossom, every form in nature is echoed in us and originates in the soul whose being is eternity and is hidden from us but none the less gives itself to us for the most part in the power of love and cr»
Author: Hermann Hesse
(Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
blossom, echoed, for the most part, leaf, originates, Power of Love, The Power Of Love
«All experiences of life seems to prove that the impediments thrown in the way of the human advancement may for the most part be overcome by steady good conduct, honest zeal, activity, perseverance and above all, by a determined resolution to surmount»
Author: Samuel Smiles
| About:
Experience,
Life
| Keywords:
activity, advancement, advancements, conduct, determined, for the most part, impediments, perseverance, resolution, steady, surmount, surmounted, surmounting, The Conduct of Life, thrown, zeal
«A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
azure, colors, dews, evening, extremely, for the most part, fragrance, healthy, heavens, hue, rare, sentence, true color
«Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.»
«Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.»
«I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places. For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
advocate, characters, countries, for the most part, Keep On Running, run away, traveling, who are you
«I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in study without experience; in the attainment of sciences which can, for the most part, be but remotely useful to mankind. I have purchased knowledge at the expense of all the common comforts of life: I have missed the endearing elegance of female friendship, and the happy commerce of domestic tenderness.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
attainment, comforts, commerce, endeared, endearing, for the most part, not able, purchased, remotely, tenderness
«Composition is, for the most part, an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
amusements, composition, delightful, diligence, dragged, for the most part, resolution, steady
«It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Suffering
| Keywords:
ennoble, ennobled, ennobles, ennobling, for the most part, petty, vindictive
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