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«God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars»
«How have I been able to live so long outside Nature without identifying myself with it? Everything lives, moves, everything corresponds; the magnetic rays, emanating either from myself or from others, cross the limitless chain of created things unimpeded; it is a transparent network that covers the world, and its slender threads communicate themselves by degrees to the planets and stars. Captive now upon earth, I commune with the chorus of the stars who share in my joys and sorrows.»
Author: Gerard de Nerval
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commune, corresponds, covers, degrees, emanate, identifying, in chorus, rays, the Chorus, transparent, unimpeded
«By degrees the castles are built.»
«Every one, though born of God in an instant, yet undoubtedly grows by slow degrees»
«Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it sure has earned a lot of people graduate degrees»
Author: Robyn Irving
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Curiosity
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Curiosity Killed the Cat, degrees, earned, graduate, graduating
«And this shall be a sign unto thee from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he hath spoken; / Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.»
«And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, What shall be the sign that the LORD will heal me, and that I shall go up into the house of the LORD the third day? / And Isaiah said, This sign shalt thou have of the LORD, that the LORD will do the thing that he hath spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees? / And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees.»
«Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime»
Author: Samuel Butler
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Adversity
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arrived, degrees, equanimity, set down, supportable
«He that suffers the slightest breach in his morality can seldom tell what shall enter it, or how wide it shall be made; when a passage is open, the influx of corruption is every moment wearing down opposition, and by slow degrees deluges the heart»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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breach, corruption, degrees, deluge, deluges, influx, passage, slightest, The Deluge, wear down
«How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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degrees, have-not, heal, patience, poor, wound
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