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Letter "I" » impatient
«The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.»
Author: Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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anxious, beach, greedy, impatient, impatient of, lying in wait, On the Beach, The Beaches, too-greedy
«We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.»
Author: William Ellery Channing
(Author, Clergyman)
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blunder, cuts, eager, impatient, impatient of, pursuit, savage
«Those who will not heed themselves perish. To understand this principle is not to be impatient, not to reproach fate, not to blame others. He who understands the doctrine of self-help blames himself for failure.»
«There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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impatient, impatient of, inferiority, recompense
«The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar, and is shocked by the unexpected: the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
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craves, impatient, on the other hand, repetition, shocked, tends, tends to, The Ear, the novel, unexpected
«The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself; that is impatient of all limit; that (as flame bends to flame) strives to link itself to some other image of kindred beau»
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