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beneficial
«Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others.»
Author: Frederick Saunders
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beneficial, injurious, in large quantities, laudanum, medicines, poisonous, quantities
«Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for, and with obscurity, for being unenvied.»
Author: Plutarch
(Author, Biographer)
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Satisfaction
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beneficial, care for, obscurities, obscurity, pleased, poverty, so far
«My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health.»
Author: Robert E. Lee
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Experience
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abstinence, beneficial, commendable, liquors, safeguard, spirituous, temperance
«Speech that is not offensive, truthful, pleasant, beneficial, and is used for the regular reading of scriptures is called the austerity of word.»
«PROVIDENTIAL, adj. Unexpectedly and conspicuously beneficial to the person so describing it.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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beneficial, conspicuously, providential
«The mind is fickle like a fast galloping horse and the only way to control him is by involving him in good actions beneficial for the welfare of all. The person who does so shall achieve success and peace. »
«Nothing will ever please me, no matter how excellent or beneficial, if I must retain the knowledge of it to myself.»
Author: Seneca
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beneficial
«The fear and anxiety that infect humanity today are the results of this degradation of values, this ignorance of what is of significance and what is not, this want of faith in what the elders and sages have handed down as the wisdom of ages. People prefer what is pleasing to what is beneficial.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
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beneficial, handed-down, infect, sages, The Age of Anxiety
«No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
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beneficial, conquered, conquerors, conquest, conquests, no show, permanent, The conqueror