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looked-for
«I had looked for happiness in fast living, but it was not there. I tried to find it in money, but it was not there either. But when I placed myself in tune with what I believe to be the fundamental truths of life, when I began to develop my limited ability, to rid my mind of all kinds of tangled thoughts, and fill it with zeal and courage and love, when I gave myself a chance by treating myself decently and sensibly, I began to feel the stimulating, warm glow of happiness.»
Author: Edward Young
(Critic, Dramatist, Poet)
| Keywords:
decently, glow, I Tried, looked-for, sensibly, stimulating, tangle, tangled, tangles, tangle with, treating, tune, zeal
«Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.»
Author: Jacob Bronowski
| About:
Nature
| Keywords:
cast, failed, Forces of Nature, Force of Nature, looked-for, magic spell, Masters, spell, succeeded
«True love begins when nothing is looked for in return»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Author, Pilot, Writer)
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
in return, looked-for
«Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.»
Author: Jean Paul Richter
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
fool around, fruit fly, In the Mood, looked-for, stall
«Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict [slavery] might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| Keywords:
aid, anticipated, assistance, astound, astounded, astounding, astounds, Evening Prayer, invoked, invokes, invoking, judged, Judge Not, looked-for, sweat, Wringing, wrings, wring from
«We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble! / The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell therein.»
«By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise: / For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.»
«But my thoughts ran woolgathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back.»
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
| Keywords:
countryman, looked-for, mounted, my thoughts, woolgathering
