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Letter "H" » hostile
«To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?»
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
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Author,
Novelist)
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About:
Ambition
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Keywords:
daunted,
daunting,
forego,
foregoes,
foregoing,
foregone,
hostile,
intrigue,
intrigued,
intrigues,
intriguing,
spotless,
tire,
tire out
«We cannot let terrorists hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile.»
«Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.»
«We are not against any man-or any nation-or any system-except as it is hostile to freedom.»
«Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Essayist,
Lecturer,
Poet)
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Keywords:
All Saints,
churches,
discredit,
discredited,
discrediting,
discredits,
geniuses,
hostile,
monasteries,
monastery,
of course,
of their own,
persecute,
persecutes,
persecuting,
routine,
routines,
saints,
seeing,
universities,
using,
youthful
«To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it - who can say this is not greatness?»