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«Successful men usually snatch success from seeming failure. If they know there is such a word as defeat they will not admit it. They may be whipped, but they are not aware of it. That is why they succeed.»
«There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.»
«The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
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Assemblies, debates, dragged, public debate, seeming
«Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to a divine purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: That we are here for the sake of others...for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day, I realize how much my outer and inner life is built upon the labors of people, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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«There is this quality in things, of the Right was seeming Wrong at first. To test our faith»
«What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.»
Author: John Milton
(Historian, Poet, Scholar)
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abstain, baits, continence, distinguish, seeming
«When I was there I found their jokes, like their roads - very long and not very good, leading to a little tin point of a spire which has been remorselessly obvious for miles without seeming to get any nearer»
Author: Samuel Butler
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Jokes
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remorselessly, seeming, spire, spires, tinned, tins
«The seeming truth which cunning times put on to entrap the wisest.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
cunning, entrap, entraps, put on, seeming, wisest
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