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Letter "T" » to the highest degree
«Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I'm using to the highest degree possible the gift that God gave me to use. I'm happy with that.»
«Do you not know that there comes a midnight hour when every one has to throw off his mask? Do you believe that life will always let itself be mocked? Do you think you can slip away a little before midnight in order to avoid this? Or are you not terrified by it? I have seen men in real life who so long deceived others that at last their true nature could not reveal itself;... In every man there is something which to a certain degree prevents him from becoming perfectly transparent to himself; and this may be the case in so high a degree, he may be so inexplicably woven into relationships of life which extend far beyond himself that he almost cannot reveal himself. But he who cannot reveal himself cannot love, and he who cannot love is the most unhappy man of all.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
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«Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.»
Author: Adam Smith
| Keywords:
administration, Administration of Justice, barbarism, brought about, lowest, natural state, opulence, requisite, tolerable, to the highest degree, to the lowest degree
«Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.»
Author: Jane Austen
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
higher degree, higher education, high hand, pen, to a higher degree, to the highest degree
«Let him who expects one class of society to prosper into highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side of his face can smile while the other is pinched. Try whether»
Author: Thomas Fuller
(Clergyman, Writer)
| About:
Smile,
Society
| Keywords:
distress, expects, higher degree, high society, one-sided, pinched, pinches, prosper, to a higher degree, to the highest degree
«Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.»
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
higher degree, increased, reaches, to a higher degree, to the highest degree
«Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Ability
| Keywords:
commonly, consist, higher degree, mainly, solemnities, solemnity, to a higher degree, to the highest degree
«MINISTER, n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomacy and officer sent into a foreign country as the visible embodiment of his sovereign's hostility. His principal qualification is a degree of plausible inveracity next below that of an ambassador.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«Mad, adj.: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
adj, affected, degree, higher degree, independence, intellectual, to a higher degree, to the highest degree
«The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Freedom,
Happiness
| Keywords:
declare, degrees of freedom, degree of freedom, derived, higher degree, impressions, intense, to a higher degree, to the highest degree, union
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