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«It's extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it's just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.»
Author: Joseph Conrad | Keywords: dormant, dullness, extraordinary, incalculable, supportable, welcome
«RENOWN, n. A degree of distinction between notoriety and fame --a little more supportable than the one and a little more intolerable than the other. Sometimes it is conferred by an unfriendly and inconsiderate hand.I touched the harp in every key, But found no heeding ear; And then Ithuriel touched me With a revealing spear.Not all my genius, great as 'tis, Could urge me out of night. I felt the faint appulse of his, And leapt into the light! --W.J. Candleton»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: harp, inconsiderate, intolerable, leapt, light touch, notoriety, spear, supportable, The Faint, unfriendly
«MONEY, n. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it. An evidence of culture and a passport to polite society. Supportable property.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: part with, polite, supportable
«A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | About: Marriage, Wedding | Keywords: supportable, undertake, undertakes, wedding ceremony
«Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton | About: Words | Keywords: comments, supportable
«Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing the»
Author: Joseph Addison (Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman) | Keywords: heaps, irregularity, pearls, stringing, supportable
«Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime»
Author: Samuel Butler | About: Adversity | Keywords: arrived, degrees, equanimity, set down, supportable
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