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Letter "A" » affords
«My mind to me a kingdom is; Such present joys therein I find that it excels all other bliss that earth affords or grows by kind»
Author: Edward Dyer
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About:
Joy,
Mankind,
Mind
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Keywords:
affords,
bliss,
excelled,
excelling,
excels,
excel at,
joys,
kingdom,
therein
«Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.»
«Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.»
«Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
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Critic,
Poet,
Writer)
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About:
Achievement,
Life,
Pleasure,
Success,
Wishes
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Keywords:
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difficulties,
forming,
gratified,
gratifies,
one-step,
passing,
seeing,
surmount,
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surmounting,
wishes
«Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life, and that to destroy, to harm, or to hinder life is evil»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
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Missionary,
Musician,
Philosopher,
Theologian)
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About:
Evil,
Life,
Morality,
Principles
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Keywords:
affords,
assisted,
assisting,
assists,
enhancing,
fundamental,
fundamental principle,
hinder,
hindered,
Maintaining,
namely,
reverence
«Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Dramatist,
Novelist,
Playwright,
Poet)
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Keywords:
affords,
An example,
An example of,
carrying,
carrying out,
elevating,
napoleon,
sacrificing,
The Absolute
«No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library»
«Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords»
«No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library; for who can see the wall crowded on every side by mighty volumes, the works of laborious meditations and accurate inquiry, now scarcely known but by the c»
Author: Samuel Johnson
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Critic,
Poet,
Writer)
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About:
Libraries
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Keywords:
affords,
crowded,
inquiry,
laborious,
meditations,
public libraries,
public library,
The C,
volumes
«Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords»