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«Anticipate charity by preventing poverty; assist the reduced fellow man, either by a considerable gift or a sum of money or by teaching him a trade or by putting him in the way of business so that he may earn an honest livelihood and not be forced to the dreadful alternative of holding out his hand for charity. This is the highest step and summit of charity's golden ladder.»
Author: Maimonides
(Philosopher)
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alternative, anticipate, assist, Business So, considerable, summit, sum of money
«A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
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assist, assisted, assisting, assists, compulsion, ethical, injuring, obeys, shrinks
«It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.»
Author: Mother Teresa of Calcutta
(Founder, Missionary)
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act, assist, assisted, assisting, assists, fallen, kingly
«I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea: / That ye receive her in the Lord, as becometh saints, and that ye assist her in whatsoever business she hath need of you: for she hath been a succourer of many, and of myself also.»
«Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
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Friends,
Friendship
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aid, assist, attend, elderly, failing, prime, prime of life, supplement, supplements
«FORK, n. An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth. Formerly the knife was employed for this purpose, and by many worthy persons is still thought to have many advantages over the other tool, which, however, they do not altogether reject, but use to assist in charging the knife. The immunity of these persons from swift and awful death is one of the most striking proofs of God's mercy to those that hate Him.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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assist, employed, fork, knife, striking
«One person seeks a midwife for his thoughts; the other, someone he can assist. Here is the origin of a good conversation.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
assist, assisted, assisting, assists, Here is, midwife, midwives, one-person, origin, seeks, the Origin
«It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, in a government ship, with five hundred men and boys to assist one, than it is to explore the private sea, the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean of one's being alone. It is not worth the while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
assist, Atlantic Ocean, cannibal, cannibals, five hundred, Pacific, Pacific Ocean, Zanzibar
«Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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Fear
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assist, implant, implanted, implanting, implants, overbear, overbearing, overborne, preservative, preservatives, tyrannize, tyrannizes
«Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize in the imagination, to raise phantoms of horror, or to beset life with supernumerary distresses.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Fear
| Keywords:
assist, beset, besets, besetting, overbear, overbearing, overborne, phantoms, preservative, preservatives, tyrannize, tyrannizes
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