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severe
«Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses»
Author: Caleb Carr
| About:
Friendship,
Losing
| Keywords:
chooses, cope, cope with, facilitate, facilitated, severe
«Avoid idleness, and fill up all the spaces of thy time with severe and useful employment: for lust easily creeps in at those emptinesses where the soul is unemployed and the body is at ease; no easy, healthful, idle person was ever chaste if he could»
Author: Jeremy Taylor
(Bishop, Clergyman, Writer)
| Keywords:
at ease, creeps, employment, fill up, healthful, idleness, lust, severe, spaces, unemployed
«Good to the poor, to kindred dear, / To servants kind, to friendship clear, / To nothing but herself severe.»
«Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves, as he loves us better too. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This conflict with difficu»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Adversity
| Keywords:
antagonist, antagonists, helper, instructor, instructors, nerves, severe, sharpens, strengthens, wrestled, wrestles
«Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.»
«ARTLESSNESS, n. A certain engaging quality to which women attain by long study and severe practice upon the admiring male, who is pleased to fancy it resembles the candid simplicity of his young.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
artlessness, candid, engaging, resembles, severe
«Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding-places in a voluminous writer.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| Keywords:
allowances, nodding, severe, voluminous
«As the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs, so should you stop off your miscellaneous activity and concentrate your force on one or a few points»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
concentrate, gardener, gardeners, limbs, miscellaneous, prune, pruned, prunes, pruning, severe, vigorous
«Do not be too severe upon the errors of the people, but reclaim them by enlightening them»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
enlightening, errors, reclaim, reclaimed, reclaiming, reclaims, severe, severer