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«If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.»
Author: Ezra Pound
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Translator)
| Keywords:
commits, establish, heretic, marginal, practiced, the system, worn, worn out
«If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.»
Author: John D. Rockefeller
(Industrialist, Philanthropist)
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Success
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accepted, paths, strike, strike out, succeed, travel, worn
«In heaven we shall appear, not in armour, but in robes of glory. But here these are to be worn night and day; we must walk, work, and sleep in them, or else we are not true soldiers of Christ.»
Author: William Gurnall
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armour, Night and Day, or else, Robes, sleep in, The True Glory, True Glory, worn
«Its idea of ''production value'' is spending a million dollars dressing up a story that any good writer would throw away. Its vision of the rewarding movie is a vehicle for some glamour-puss with two expressions and eighteen changes of costume, or for some male idol of the muddled millions with a permanent hangover, six worn-out acting tricks, the build of a lifeguard, and the mentality of a chicken-strangler.»
Author: Raymond Chandler
(Writer)
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costume, dressing, eighteen, expressions, hangover, hangovers, idol, mentality, muddle, muddled, production, puss, rewarding, throw away, tricks, vehicle, worn, worn out
«I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years.»
«Is there anything worn under the kilt? No, it's all in perfect working order.»
«I don't like your miserable lonely single ''front name.'' It is so limited, so meager; it has no versatility; it is weighted down with the sense of responsibility; it is worn threadbare with much use; it is as bad as having only one jacket and one hat; it is like having only one relation, one blood relation, in the world. Never set a child afloat on the flat sea of life with only one sail to catch the wind.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
afloat, bad blood, bad hat, blood relation, flat, jacket, meager, One Blood, sense of responsibility, threadbare, versatility, wear down, weighted, worn
«I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
alight, alighted, alights, circumstance, distinguished, epaulet, epaulets, hoe, hoed, hoeing, shoulder, sparrow, Sparrows, The Sparrow, village, worn
«I am losing enough sleep to supply a worn-out army.»
«I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.»
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