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«Heroism is latent in every human soul - However humble or unknown, they (the veterans) have renounced what are accounted pleasures and cheerfully undertaken all the self-denials - privations, toils, dangers, sufferings, sicknesses, mutilations, life-»
Author: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
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Heroism
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«I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.»
Author: Anne Frank
(Author)
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«When a man's life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other men's actions or negligence, it is not only his sensibility that suffers but also his aspiration toward the good. Therefore there has been sacrilege towards that which is sacred in him.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
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aspiration, damaged, due, due to, negligence, not due, privation, privations, sacrilege, sensibilities, sensibility, suffers, wound
«ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude --a privation appealing with a particular eloquence to all that is sympathetic in human nature. When young the orphan is commonly sent to an asylum, where by careful cultivation of its rudimentary sense of locality it is taught to know its place. It is then instructed in the arts of dependence and servitude and eventually turned loose to prey upon the world as a bootblack or scullery maid.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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bootblack, cultivation, deprived, deprived of, eloquence, filial, instructed, privation, privations, rudimentary, scullery
«TAIL, n. The part of an animal's spine that has transcended its natural limitations to set up an independent existence in a world of its own. Excepting in its foetal state, Man is without a tail, a privation of which he attests an hereditary and uneasy consciousness by the coat-skirt of the male and the train of the female, and by a marked tendency to ornament that part of his attire where the tail should be, and indubitably once was. This tendency is most observable in the female of the species, in whom the ancestral sense is strong and persistent. The tailed men described by Lord Monboddo are now generally regarded as a product of an imagination unusually susceptible to influences generated in the golden age of our pithecan past.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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ancestral, attests, attired, foetal, generated, indubitably, natural state, observable, privation, privations, spine, spines, tailed, tail coat, The Golden Age, transcended, uneasy, unusually
«Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body»
«The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.»
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
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conspicuously, privation, privations, turn up, urging, wealthy
«The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius; for it commonly operates revolutions in our way of life, terminates an epoch of infancy or of youth which was waiting to be closed, breaks up a wonted occupation, or a household, or style of living, and allows the formation of new ones more friendly to the growth of character.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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assumes, epoch, epochs, formation, household, infancy, operates, privation, privations, revolutions, somewhat, terminate, terminated, terminates, terminating, way of life, wonted
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