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«If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever»
Author: St. Thomas Aquinas | Keywords: captain, port, ports, preserve, ship
«Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.»
Author: Anais Nin (Author) | About: Relationships | Keywords: contact, human being, precious, preserve, rare
«Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?»
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Keywords: escape from, fire escape, preserve, suicide, throws
«Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them»
Author: John Milton (Historian, Poet, Scholar) | About: Books | Keywords: active, bred, contain, dead soul, Dead Things, efficacy, extraction, intellect, nay, nays, not absolutely, potency, preserve, progeny, purest, vial, vials
«[To simplify] is very nearly the whole of the higher artistic process; finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without -- and yet preserve the spirit of the whole.»
Author: Willa Sibert Cather (Author) | Keywords: artistic, conventions, detail, nearly, preserve, simplified, simplifies, simplify, simplifying, the Convention, the conventions
«In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free, - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln (President) | Keywords: alike, assure, honorable, preserve, slave
«Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy. (Psalms 64:1)»
Author: Bible | About: Enemies | Keywords: preserve, Psalms
«In general I esteem it a good maxim, that the best way to preserve the confidence of the people durably is to promote their true interest»
Author: George Washington (President) | Keywords: Best interests, esteem, general, general interest, interest, in general, maxim, preserve, promote, promotes
«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
«Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were [the law-abiding] deprived of the use of them.»
Author: Thomas Paine (Writer) | Keywords: abiding, awe, deprived, deprived of, discourage, ensue, ensued, ensues, ensuing, horrid, invader, Invaders, law-abiding, mischief, plunderer, plunderers, preserve
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