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«Great minds have purposes; little minds have wishes. Little minds are subdued by misfortunes; great minds rise above them.»
Author: Washington Irving
(Writer)
| About:
Mind,
Overcoming
| Keywords:
misfortunes, purposes, subdued
«Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued»
«For thou hast girded me with strength to battle: them that rose up against me hast thou subdued under me.»
«A person who has subdued the senses and completely renounced [the fruits of] all works, dwells happily in the City of Nine Gates, neither performing nor directing action.»
«David also commanded all the princes of Israel to help Solomon his son, saying, / Is not the LORD your God with you? and hath he not given you rest on every side? for he hath given the inhabitants of the land into mine hand; and the land is subdued before the LORD, and before his people.»
«For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.»
«It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
burden, desolation, past life, past times, sad, storm, subdued, subdues, sweep over, sweep through, sweep up, swept, vanity
«Beauty has often overpowered the resolutions of the firm, and the reasonings of the wise, roused the old to sensibility, and subdued the rigorous to softness»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Beauty
| Keywords:
overpower, overpowered, overpowering, resolutions, rigorous, roused, sensibility, subdued, The Firm
«It all worked out - I was saved, and the egotism within my heart was subdued. The evil energies have been made to serve me, since I placed my faith in the True Guru. I have renounced my useless schemes, by the Grace of the True, Carefree Lord.»
«Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.»
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