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«Let stern lessons of yesterdays be your food, your drink, your rest.»
Author: Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr.
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stern
«It is stern work, it is perilous work to thrust your hand in the sun And pull out a spark of immortal flame to warm the hearts of men.»
«From compromise and things half done, Keep me with stern and stubborn pride; And when at last the fight is won, God, keep me still unsatisfied»
Author: Louis Untermeyer
| Keywords:
compromise, last half, stern, sterner, sternest, stubborn, unsatisfied, unsatisfying
«I was raised the old-fashioned way, with a stern set of moral principles: Never lie, cheat, steal or knowingly spread a venereal disease. Never speed up to hit a pedestrian or, or course, stop to kick a pedestrian who has already been hit. From which it followed, of course, that one would never ever -- on pain of deletion from dozens of Christmas card lists across the country -- vote Republican.»
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
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across the country, card, Christmas Card, deletion, dozens, fashioned, knowingly, lists, moral principle, old country, Old Course, old fashioned, pedestrian, pedestrians, speed up, stern, venereal, venereal disease
«False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.»
Author: Charles de Montesquieu
(Philosopher, Politician)
| About:
Happiness,
Sharing
| Keywords:
communicated, renders, sensible, stern
«Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.»
«As a people, we have the problem of making our forests outlast this generation, or iron outlast this century, and our coal the next; not merely as a matter of convenience or comfort, but as a matter of stern necessity.»
«A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind»
«Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
duties, forgetting, inconvenient, rigid, stern
«An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everyone jumped on his violin?»
Author: Marilyn Monroe
(Actress)
| About:
Actors and acting
| Keywords:
Isaac, Isaac Stern, jumped, sensitive, stern, violin
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