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«Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.»
«It is easy to see that, even in the freedom of early youth, an American girl never quite loses control of herself; she enjoys all permitted pleasures without losing her head about any of them, and her reason never lets the reins go, though it may oft»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
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American Girl, an American, enjoys, lets, Lose Control, oft, permitted, rein, reined, reins
«I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
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administration, administrations, affairs, conduct, Down to Earth, Earth i, every other, lay, lay down, power i, rein, reined, reins
«Best is the Tongue that feels the rein; He that talks much, must talk in vain; We from the wordy Torrent fly: Who listens to the chattering Pye?»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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chattering, chatters, in vain, listens, rein, reined, talks, wordy
«If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.»
«Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.»
«Precedents are dangerous things; let the rein of government then be braced and held with a steady hand»
Author: George Washington
(President)
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Precedents
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braced, braces, precedents, rein, reined, steady
«Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided»
«Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him»
«As the traveler who has lost his way, throws his reins on his horse's neck, and trusts to the instinct of the animal to find his road, so must we do with the divine animal who carries us through this world»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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Instinct
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Animal World, carries, instinct, neck, rein, reined, reins, The Animal, The Traveler, throws, traveler, trusts
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