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«She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.»
«Shy and proud men are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures of low character. For in the intimacies which are formed by shy men, they do not choose, but are chosen.»
Author: Henry Taylor
(Author)
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fall into, formed, intimacies, liable, parasites, shy, shyest, Too Shy
«The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
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Friendship
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«Though our character is formed by circumstances, our own desires can do much to shape those circumstances; and what is really inspiriting and ennobling in the doctrine of free will is the conviction that we have real power over the formation of our o»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
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«Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
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Opinions
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basis, formed, public opinion, underlie, underlies, underlying
«Talents are best nurtured in solitude, but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world»
«O fairest of creation! last and best / Of all God's works! Creature in whom excelled / Whatever can to sight or thought be formed, / Holy, divine, good, amiable, or sweet!»
«The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed in the likeness of his father, that his personal relation to God depends on his relation to his father in the flesh and oscillates and changes along with that relation, and that at bottom God is nothing other than an exalted father.»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
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«Rincewind formed a mental picture of some strange entity living in a castle made of teeth. It was the kind of mental picture you tried to forget. Unsuccessfully.»
Author: Terry Pratchett
(Writer)
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castle, entities, entity, formed, mental picture, teeth, unsuccessfully
«The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses, calling them by the names and adorning them with the properties of woods, rivers, mountains, lakes, cities, nations, and whatever their enlarged and numerous senses could perceive. And particularly they studied the genius of each city and county, placing it under its mental deity. Till a system was formed, which some took advantage of and enslaved the vulgar by attempting to realize or abstract the mental deities from their objects; thus began Priesthood. Choosing forms of worship from poetic tales. And at length they pronounced that the Gods had ordered such things. Thus men forgot that All deities reside in the human breast.»
Author: William Blake
(Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet)
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