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«To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.»
Author: Charles Horton Cooley
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Heroism
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aspiration, live on, No Hero, routine, sensuality, thrown
«Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away»
Author: Arthur Helps
(Historian, Novelist)
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barren, barrens, barren of, fall away, sayings, thrown-away, thrown
«When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not only by the lightest action but by the most harmless pleasure, I feel Man to be of all living things the most biologically incompetent and ill-organized. Why has he acquired a seventy years life-span only to poison it incurably by the mere being of himself? Why has he thrown Conscience, like a dead rat, to putrefy in the well?»
Author: Cyril Connolly
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accumulation, accumulations, acquired, biologically, carry through, contemplate, Fed, garbage, garbage can, guilt, harmless, incompetent, incompetents, incurably, lightest, organized, poison, putrefied, putrefy, rat, remorse, seventies, seventy, span, spanned, spanning, spans, The WELL, thrown
«When the sword of rebellion is drawn, the sheath should be thrown away.»
Author: English Proverb
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drawn, draw away, rebellion, Rebellions, sheath, sword, the rebellion, The Sword, thrown-away, thrown
«To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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cast, cast about, cast on, development, display, energy, faculties, fortune, lap, Lapped, lapping, laps, previously, resources, thrown, undergo, undergone, underwent, unsusceptible