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«The ambitious climbs up high and perilous stairs, and never cares how to come down; the desire of rising hath swallowed up his fear of a fall»
Author: Thomas Adams
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«Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous- to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.»
«There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
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introduction, introductions, Introduction to, in hand, lead-in, Order of, perilous, take in, uncertain
«To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man-and also a nation.»
Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
(Ambassador, Governor, Politician)
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coolly, intelligently, perilous, prudently, The test
«That getting along without false judgments would amount to getting along without life, negating life. To admit untruth as a necessary condition of life: this implies, to be sure, a perilous resistance against customary value-feelings.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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customary, implies, judgments, negate, negated, negating, perilous, resistance, to be sure, untruth, untruths, value judgment
«Stop and consider! life is but a day; A fragile dew-drop on its perilous way From a tree's summit; a poor Indian's sleep While his boat hastens to the monstrous steep Of Montmorenci»