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«Each day is a special gift from God, and while life may not always be fair, you must never allow the pains, hurdles, and handicaps of the moment to poison your attitude and plans for yourself and your future. You can never win when you wear the ugly cloak of self-pity, and the sour sound of whining will certainly frighten away any opportunity for success. Never again. There is a better way.»
Author: Og Mandino
(Essayist, Psychologist)
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«Democrats give away their old clothes; Republicans wear theirs. Republicans employ exterminators; Democrats step on the bugs. Democrats eat the fish they catch; Republicans stuff 'em and hang 'em on the wall.»
Author: Sean Donlon
| About:
Democracy,
Government
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«May I govern my passion with absolute sway, And grow wiser and better as my strength wears away»
«Truth is a point, the subtlest and finest; harder than adamant; never to be broken, worn away or blunted. Its only bad quality is, that it is sure to hurt those who touch it; and likely to draw blood, perhaps the life blood of those who press earnestly upon it.»
Author: Walter Savage Landor
(Writer)
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«We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.»
Author: Plutarch
(Author, Biographer)
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«And when the day began to wear away, then came the twelve, and said unto him, Send the multitude away, that they may go into the towns and country round about, and lodge, and get victuals: for we are here in a desert place.»
«Constant dropping wears away stones»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Achievement
| Keywords:
dropping, droppings, wears, wear away
«Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou, and this people that is with thee: for this thing is too heavy for thee; thou art not able to perform it thyself alone.»
«Constant dropping wears away a stone. -mid 13th; earlier in Greek»
«A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch.»
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