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«Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.»
Author: George Washington
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President)
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About:
Friendship
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Keywords:
adversity,
all but,
appellation,
be intimate,
be well,
confidence,
courteous,
entitle,
entitled,
entitles,
intimate,
intimates,
intimate with,
intimating,
plant,
shocks,
slow,
tried,
tried and true,
undergo,
undergone,
underwent,
well-tried,
withstand,
withstanding,
withstood
«Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become Love. That is the mystery.»
«Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.»
Author: Thomas Paine
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Writer)
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Keywords:
blessings,
expect,
fatigue,
fatigued,
fatigues,
fatiguing,
reap,
reaped,
reaps,
supporting,
undergo,
undergone,
underwent
«The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.»
«One shall have to undergo suffering to reach truth. That is why it is said that truth is eternally victorious.»
«The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo, the more he can remember the more divine his life becomes.»
«To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
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Inventor,
Philosopher,
Printer,
Scientist,
Statesman,
Writer)
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Keywords:
cast,
cast about,
cast on,
development,
display,
energy,
faculties,
fortune,
lap,
Lapped,
lapping,
laps,
previously,
resources,
thrown,
undergo,
undergone,
underwent,
unsusceptible
«SATYR, n. One of the few characters of the Grecian mythology accorded recognition in the Hebrew. (Leviticus, xvii, 7.) The satyr was at first a member of the dissolute community acknowledging a loose allegiance with Dionysius, but underwent many transformations and improvements. Not infrequently he is confounded with the faun, a later and decenter creation of the Romans, who was less like a man and more like a goat.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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Editor,
Journalist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
acknowledging,
confounded,
Dionysius,
dissolute,
faun,
goat,
Grecian,
Hebrew,
Leviticus,
Romans,
satyr,
satyrs,
transformations,
underwent,
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«The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.»
«In spite of the declarations, you will notice in the career of the same Krishna that He underwent defeat in His efforts or endeavors, on a few occasions you must have also noted that those defeats too, were part of the drama, which He had planned, and He Himself directed.»