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«Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.»
«Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.»
«Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.»
«Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.»
Author: Plato
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Philosopher)
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Keywords:
able,
accuracy,
amuses,
bent,
bents,
child,
direct,
Directed By,
discover,
force,
genius,
harshness,
In Training,
minds,
peculiar,
The Bends,
The Genius,
to it,
train
«He . . . felt towards those whom he had deserted that peculiar malignity which has, in all ages, been characteristic of apostates.»
«FIDELITY, n. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.»
«Fixed like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot»
«After another moment's silence, she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day I might disgust her for the very same reason»
«Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited reliance upon human promises? That is a peculiar condition of society which enables a whole nation to instantly recognize point and meaning in the familiar newspaper anecdote, which puts into the mouth of a distinguished speculator in lands and mines this remark: -- ''I wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two millions of dollars.''»
Author: Mark Twain
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Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
anecdote,
cent,
distinguished,
enables,
Golden Age,
golden mean,
instantly,
lands,
land mines,
million years ago,
mines,
Modern Age,
modern society,
mutual,
newspaper,
peculiar,
promised land,
reliance,
remark,
speculator,
speculators,
The Golden Age,
The Modern Age,
unlimited
«Every man may be observed to have a certain strain of lamentation, some peculiar theme of complaint on which he dwells in his moments of dejection»
Author: Samuel Johnson
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Critic,
Poet,
Writer)
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Keywords:
complaint,
dejection,
dwells,
lamentation,
Lamentations,
observed,
peculiar,
strain,
theme