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Letter "S" » several
«I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks»
«My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety.»
Author: Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
(
Mayor,
Physician)
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Keywords:
anxiety,
anxious,
come home,
ease,
etc.,
etc,
letters,
post,
relatives,
several
«It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.»
«May the Father of All Mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths; and, make us in all our several vocations useful here, and in His own due time and way everlastingly happy»
Author: George Washington
(
President)
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Keywords:
due,
everlastingly,
Father of,
Father Time,
in due time,
mercies,
not due,
paths,
scatter,
scattering,
several,
The Father,
vocations
«I have climbed several higher mountains without guide or path, and have found, as might be expected, that it takes only more time and patience commonly than to travel the smoothest highway»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(
Essayist,
Philosopher,
Poet)
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About:
Doing Your Best
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Keywords:
climbed,
commonly,
expected,
guide,
higher,
highway,
high time,
mountains,
mountain climbing,
path,
patience,
several,
smoother,
smoothest,
The Guide,
travel
«Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee»
«I saw a cat yesterday with 4 legs and yet it was only a yellow cat, and rather small, too, for its size. They were not all fore legs several of them were hind legs; indeed almost a majority of them were.»
Author: Mark Twain
(
Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
come to the fore,
fore,
hind,
hinds,
legs,
several,
size,
The Yellow,
yellow
«Man is the religious animal. He is the only religious animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion ?- several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat, if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven.»
Author: Mark Twain
(
Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
animal,
brother,
cuts,
globe,
globes,
Globe and,
Good Neighbors,
graveyard,
graveyards,
his brother,
neighbor,
several,
smooth,
straight,
theologies,
theology,
The Globe,
The Good Neighbor,
throat,
tried and true
«I don't own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars -- it's a luxury I can't afford.»
«I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes -- but is that all?»