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«There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.»
«This latter day work is spiritual. It takes spirituality to comprehend it, to love it, to discern it. Therefore, seek the spirit in all you do. Keep it with you continually. That is our challenge.»
Author: Ezra Taft Benson
| Keywords:
challenge, comprehend, continually, discern, discerns, latter, Latter day, spirituality
«The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents to him;»
Author: Guillaume Thomas Raynal
(Writer)
| About:
Genius,
Intelligence
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accidentally, advantages, anticipates, chance upon, employs, explores, former, frequently, hits, latter, presents
«There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering»
Author: Minna Antrim
| About:
Being a Woman,
Compliments,
Truth
| Keywords:
compliment, latter, oblique, unflattering
«Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.»
«The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.»
Author: Immanuel Kant
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
desired, former, latter, objects, practical, shunned
«The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.»
Author: Johann Kaspar Lavater
(Theologian)
| About:
Business
| Keywords:
advantages, bold, conquers, difficulties, diminishes, enterprise, former, hero, latter, preponderate, prudent
«There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter.»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
| About:
Praise,
Reputation
| Keywords:
abused, abusing, accompanied, accompanying, Establishing, former, invariably, latter, modes, praised, rogues, secure
«The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
disguise, latter, theologian, The Lover
«The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Men
| Keywords:
caught, Caught in The Act, discreditable, honor, latter, regrets, worked
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