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Letter "L" » living substance
«We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.»
Author: Les Brown
(Author, Entrepreneur, motivational speaker)
| Keywords:
active, charge, design, destinies, living substance, look for, of our own, substance, substances, take charge
«Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.»
Author: Walter Benjamin
(Essayist, Theologian, Writer)
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conquers, ecstasy, frenzy, living substance, procreation
«And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.»
«And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.»
«For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.»
«To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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«Hang ideas! They are tramps, vagabonds, knocking at the back-door of your mind, each taking a little of your substance, each carrying away some crumb of that belief in a few simple notions you must cling to if you want to live decently and would like to die easy!»
«Do you make a grievance of weighing so many pounds only instead of three hundred? Then why fret about living so many years only, instead of more? Since you are content with the measure of substance allowed you, be so also with the measure of time»
«As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale -- my dreams become the substances of my life.»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
living substance, substances, tale
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