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«I am only one, but I am one. I can't do everything, but I can do something. The something I ought to do, I can do. And by the grace of God, I will.»
Author: Edward Everett Hale
(Clergyman, Writer)
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Potential
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can-do, grace, grace of God, ought
«I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
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Forgiveness
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burned, cancelled, forgive, forgiveness, Forgive and forget, note, noting, ought, shown, take note, torn
«I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes you ought go to away and write a book about it»
Author: Lord Brabazon
(Aviator)
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book, going away, go to, minutes, ought, The View, twenty, view
«I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.»
«One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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control, control it, go, head, head up, hold, hold on, lets, loses, Lose Control, ought, Out of Control, soon, too
«In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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background, backgrounds, Background and, dim, dimmed, dimming, dims, in the background, ought, somehow, start
«Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
ought, perform, resolve
«No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil authority.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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Against the man, authority, civil, civil authority, civil right, conscience, constitution, constitutions, dearer, enterprises, ought, protects, provision, rights
«One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
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about turn, back, back away, danger, double, doubles, double over, doubling, flinch, flinching, half, halves, meet, ought, out of danger, promptly, reduce, run, running back, run away, take turns, threatened, try, turn, turned on, turning away