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«The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes»
«The beginning of a plot is the prompting of desire.»
«Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles»
Author: Paul Fussell
| About:
America and Americans,
Anxiety
| Keywords:
advertise, affiliation, affiliations, anxiety, automobiles, college, Colleges and universities, prompt, prompting, prompts, rear, rear window, status, university
«The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.»
«In pious times 'ere priest craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin: When man, on many, multiply'd his kind Ere one to one was, cursedly, confined; When Nature prompted, and no law deny'd Promiscuous use of concubine and bride»
«All actions are judged by the motive prompting them»
«Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
accord, attach, attach to, cultivate, inclination, pains, prompt, prompting, prompts, spontaneous
«Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
confront, disarm, disarmed, disarming, disarms, insensible, prompt, prompter, prompting, valor
«The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Miracles,
Power
| Keywords:
application, determined, elevates, industry, perseverance, prompt, prompting, The Industry, The Miracle
«Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
abstract, cases, conceiving, conclusions, instinctive, perception, prompt, prompted, prompting
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