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«I have urged on woman independence of man, not that I do not think the sexes mutually needed by one another, but because in woman this fact has led to an excessive devotion, which has cooled love, degraded marriage and prevented it her sex from being what it should be to itself or the other. I wish woman to live, first for God's sake. Then she will not take what is not fit for her from a sense of weakness and poverty. Then if she finds what she needs in man embodied, she will know how to love and be worthy of being loved.»
«Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.»
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
(Historian)
| About:
Action,
Foolishness,
Wisdom
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apothegm, Apothegms, prevented, uttered
«Few of the many wise apothegms, which have been uttered from the time of the seven sages of Greece to that of poor Richard, have prevented a single foolish action»
«I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the wrong light to the entire world because they will say that I could have prevented it.»
«He in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him.»
Author: Henry Fielding
(Novelist, Playwright)
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compliance, prevented, ravish, ravished, ravishing
«Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.»
Author: Pope John Paul II
(Pope)
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Humanity,
War
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absurd, Death itself, once more, phenomenon, prevented, table, unfair
«A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.»
«And when they were come to Capernaum, they that received tribute money came to Peter, and said, Doth not your master pay tribute? / He saith, Yes. And when he was come into the house, Jesus prevented him, saying, What thinkest thou, Simon? of whom do the kings of the earth take custom or tribute? of their own children, or of strangers? / Peter saith unto him, Of strangers. Jesus saith unto him, Then are the children free.»
«A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
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doomed, frustration, prevented, rumor, skeleton, skeletons, unfounded
«Dejection of spirits, which may have prevented many a man from becoming an author, made me one. I find constant employment necessary, and therefore take care to be constantly employed. . . . When I can find no other occupation, I think; and when I think, I am very apt to do it in rhyme.»
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