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«Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.»
Author: Orison Swett Marden
| About:
Opportunity
| Keywords:
common, extraordinary, occasioned, occasions, on occasion, opportunities, seize, seize on, seizing, wait, weak
«Destiny is an absolutely definite and inexorable ruler. Physical ability and moral determination count for nothing. It is impossible to perform the simplest act when the gods say ''no.'' I have no idea how they bring pressure to bear on such occasions; I only know that it is irresistible.»
Author: Aleister Crowley
| Keywords:
act of God, bear on, bring to bear, definite, inexorable, irresistible, occasions, perform, physical ability, pressure, ruler, simplest
«A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions»
«Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
(Poet)
| About:
Change,
Peace,
Sadness
| Keywords:
awareness, constitute, departure, departures, disturbances, followed, interim, occasions, realities, recurrence, recurrences
«Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
| About:
Experience,
Poetry
| Keywords:
complain, consciences, examine, genuinely, modern, obscurities, obscurity, occasions, profoundly, shared
«All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.»
Author: Wilson Mizner
| About:
Anger
| Keywords:
conceived, continues, contradicts, inadequate, occasions, provocation, provocations, rule of, scripture, sinful, slight
«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)
| About:
Debt
| Keywords:
burthen, debts, discharge, exertions, likewise, occasioned, occasions, posterity, shunning, throwing, unavoidable, vigorous
«A collection of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Anecdotes,
Maxim
| Keywords:
anecdote, anecdotes, collection, intersperse, man of the world, occasions, recollect, recollected, treasures
«Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
Bad Times, learner, learners, occasions, on occasion, scientific
«Emotional occasions, especially violent ones, are extremely potent in precipitating mental rearrangements. The sudden and explosive ways in which love, jealousy, guilt, fear, remorse, or anger can seize upon one are known to everybody. . . . And emotions that come in this explosive way seldom leave things as they found them.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
come in, emotional, explosive, explosives, extremely, guilt, jealousy, occasions, potent, precipitate, precipitated, precipitates, precipitating, remorse, seize, sudden, Sudden Fear, violent
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