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«I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.»
«Nature is the true revelation of the Deity to man. The nearest green field is the inspired page from which you may read all that it is needful for you to know.»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
| Keywords:
deity, field, green, inspired, nearest, needful, page, revelation, Revelation of
«Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.»
«It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the Antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of Evolution.»
Author: Havelock Ellis
| Keywords:
ancestors, antelope, conscientiously, curious, Darwin, disgust, elephant, Elephant Man, evolution, instinctive, nearest, relations, ridicule, spared, The Elephant, The Elephant Man, traced
«Of all the things I've done in life, directing a motion picture is the most beautiful. It's the most exciting and the nearest that an interpretive craftsman, such as an actor can possibly get to being a creator.»
Author: Laurence Olivier, Sir
(Actor, Film Director, Producer)
| Keywords:
craftsman, directing, interpretive, motion picture, Motion pictures, nearest, The Motion Picture
«The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
(Author, Essayist, Poet)
| Keywords:
breath, common good, duties, grasp, hand and foot, In Your Eyes, nearest, nostril, nostrils, plain, The Path
«REAR, n. In American military matters, that exposed part of the army that is nearest to Congress.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
American Army, exposed, nearest, rear
«Many men build as cathedrals were built, the part nearest the ground finished; but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever incomplete.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
| About:
Body
| Keywords:
cathedrals, incomplete, nearest, soars, spire, spires, turret, turrets
«There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Community
| Keywords:
eagerness, immediate, impatience, nearest
