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Letter "N" » neighbors
«The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.»
«Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
(Judge, Jurist)
| Keywords:
fathers, Good Neighbors, larger, neighbors, suspect
«The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it»
«The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| Keywords:
apt, insignificant, lowering, neighbors, rising, self esteem, sneer, sneered, sneering, sneers
«There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbors. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
agriculture, cheating, commerce, conquered, continual, god of war, hand of God, industry, miracle man, neighbors, plundered, plundering, plunders, receives, robberies, robbery, Romans, the Romans, The Third, three-way, thrown, virtuous, war god, wherein, wrought
«People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.»
«The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.»
«Sunday: A day given over by Americans to wishing that they themselves were dead and in Heaven, and that their neighbors were dead and in Hell»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
America and Americans,
Day
| Keywords:
neighbors, Sunday, wishing
«That person is not a perfect Muslim who eateth his fill, and leaveth his neighbors hungry»
«The man whose acquisitions stick is the man who is always achieving and advancing whilst his neighbors, spending most of their time in relearning what they once knew but have forgotten, simply hold their own»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
achieving, acquisitions, advancing, neighbors, relearn, relearning, spending
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