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«Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.»
«Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.»
Author: Immanuel Kant
(Philosopher)
| About:
Friendship,
Individualism,
Popularity,
Respect,
Self-esteem
| Keywords:
lawful, multitude, testimony, voices, weigh
«They pass through whirlpools, and deep woes do shun, who the event weigh, ere the action's done.»
«Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.»
Author: Plutarch
(Author, Biographer)
| Keywords:
adversities, adversity, balance, balancing, prosperity, scale, scaled, scaling, weigh, weighing
«The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape»
«They never say to you, 'What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies?' Instead, they demand 'How old is he? How many brothers has he? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make?' Only from»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Author, Pilot, Writer)
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brothers, butterflies, collect, collects, demand, elder brother, Father, games, His father, sound, weigh, weighing
«There is a breed of fashion models who weigh no more than an abridged dictionary.»
«Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, but to weigh and consider . . . Histories make men wise.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
History,
Reading
| Keywords:
confute, confuted, confutes, confuting, contradict, Histories, take for, take for granted, weigh
«O sleep, O gentle sleep, nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, that thou no more wilt weigh my eye-lids down and steep my senses in forgetfulness?»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
forgetfulness, frightened, lids, nurse, steep, steeped, steeps, weigh, weighed down, wilt
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