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Letter "O" » obstinate
«True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.»
«You know I won't turn over a new leaf I am so obstinate, but then I am no less obstinate in being your affectionate Husband.»
«The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.»
«The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.»
Author: Jean de la Bruyere
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long-lived, maladies, malady, obstinate, reconciliation, sick person, surest, The Passion
«RESOLUTE, adj. Obstinate in a course that we approve.»
«Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.»
«There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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abandonment, battlefields, Braves, flourish, inch, invasion, In the Shadows, isolation, obstinate, renown, rewards, saluted, salutes, The Shadows, triumphs, trumpets, turpitude
«There is nothing more likely to drive a man mad, than the being unable to get rid of the idea of the distinction between right and wrong, and an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
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constitutional, constitutional right, constitutional rights, obstinate, preference, right and wrong
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