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«Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.»
«A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. (In other words, all but one participant will be bored, all but one mind underused.)»
«Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.»
«Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.»
Author: George Washington
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President)
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About:
Friendship
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Keywords:
adversity,
all but,
appellation,
be intimate,
be well,
confidence,
courteous,
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plant,
shocks,
slow,
tried,
tried and true,
undergo,
undergone,
underwent,
well-tried,
withstand,
withstanding,
withstood
«As I bit into the nectarine, it had a crisp juiciness about it that was very pleasurable - until I realized it wasn't a nectarine at all, but A HUMAN HEAD!»
«All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated...As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all: but how much more me, who am brought so near the door by this sickness....No man is an island, entire of itself...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.»
Author: John Donne
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Keywords:
all but,
an island,
author,
bell,
bell book,
bell ringing,
brought,
calls,
chapter,
chapters,
congregation,
congregations,
Death itself,
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island,
Islands of the,
near,
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One Ring,
preacher,
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Ring The,
ring up,
rung,
send,
sermon,
sickness,
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Thee,
The Bell,
the book,
The Sickness,
tolling,
tolls,
torn,
translated,
translates,
translating,
volume
«Be polite to all, but intimate with few.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(
Author,
President)
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About:
Relationships
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Keywords:
all but,
be intimate,
be polite,
intimate,
intimates,
intimate with,
intimating,
polite,
politer,
politest
«Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.»
«Even though I was their captive, the Indians allowed me quite a bit of freedom. I could walk freely, make my own meals, and even hurl large rocks at their heads. It was only later that I discovered that they were not Indians at all but only dirty-clothes hampers.»
Author: Jack Handy
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Writer)
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Keywords:
allowed,
all but,
a bit,
bit,
captive,
clothes hamper,
dirty,
evening clothes,
freely,
hamper,
hampered,
hampering,
hampers,
heads,
hurl,
hurling,
hurls,
Indians,
meals,
not late,
quite a,
rocks,
The Captive
«Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(
Essayist,
Lecturer,
Poet)
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Keywords:
achievements,
all but,
build,
cold,
colder,
coldest,
colds,
endure,
grows,
monument,
sun,
The Monument,
The Sun