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signs
«A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success»
Author: Otto von Bismarck
(Chancellor, Founder, Prime Minister)
| About:
Generosity,
Heroism,
Men
| Keywords:
design, execution, generosity, moderation, signs
«A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.»
Author: Jimmy Carter
(President)
| Keywords:
afford, bluster, blustering, boasting, extend, helping, helping hand, insecurity, rashness, restrained, signs, thoughtful
«He that is thy friend indeed,He will help thee in thy need:If thou sorrow, he will weep;If thou wake, he cannot sleep:Thus of every grief in heartHe with thee does bear a part.These are certain signs to knowFaithful friend from flattering foe.»
«I've always thought respectable people scoundrels, and I look anxiously at my face every morning for signs of my becoming a scoundrel.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
anxiously, becoming, face, morning, respectable, scoundrel, scoundrels, signs, sign on, The Morning After
«Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustle and rush are the signs of victory, not of defeat. Victory is a thing of action. It is a house in the act of being built. Every participant in victory sweats and puffs, carrying the stones for the building of the house. But defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom. And above all of futility.»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Author, Pilot, Writer)
| Keywords:
above all, boredom, building, bustle, bustles, bustling, carrying, characterize, characterized, commonly, feverish, futility, incoherence, participant, puffed, puffing, puffs, rush, signs, stones, sweats, The Building, the participants, weariness
«Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat / Sighing through all her works gave signs of woe, / That all was lost.»
«For business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Self-interest
| Keywords:
outward, preserve, reasons, sanity, signs
«Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.»
«Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger»
Author: Seneca
| Keywords:
accordingly, anger, attacks, Attack of, epileptic, Epileptics, imminent, in regard to, precaution, precautions, regard, regard to, signs, under attack