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portion
«When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.»
Author: Marquis De Lafayette
| About:
Civil rights,
Government
| Keywords:
duties, insurrection, insurrections, insurrection of, portion, the insurrection, violates
«The clergy successfully preached the doctrines of patience and pusillanimity; the active virtues of society were discouraged; and the last remains of a military spirit were buried in the cloister: a large portion of public and private wealth was con»
Author: Edward Gibbon
(Historian)
| Keywords:
buried, clergy, cloister, cloistered, con, cons, discouraged, doctrines, portion, preached, pusillanimity, successfully
«Today is a most unusual day, because we have never lived it before; we will never live it again; it is the only day we have.Today can be a healthy unusual day for you -- and for others -- if you take time to give someone a smile . . . to express a word of kindness . . . to lend a helping hand to someone in need . . . to write a note of gratitude . . . to give a word of encouragement to someone who is temporarily overcome with problems . . . to share a portion of your material possessions with others.»
Author: William Arthur Ward
| Keywords:
encouragement, express, gratitude, healthy, helping, helping hand, lend, material, note, overcome, portion, portion out, possessions, share, taking possession, temporarily, unusual
«The church the state, and the poor, are 3 daughters which we should maintain, but not portion off.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
daughters, portion
«We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused / in place of the verbose, the detailed, the voluminous, the inaccessible. On the other hand, the lightness of the artillery should not degenerate into pop-gunnery / by which term we may designate the character of the greater portion of the newspaper press / their sole legitimate object being the discussion of ephemeral matters in an ephemeral manner.»
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
artillery, condense, condensed, curt, degenerate, designate, designated, designates, detailed, diffuse, diffused, diffuses, diffusing, discussion, ephemeral, gunnery, inaccessible, in place, legitimate, lightness, newspaper, on the other hand, pointed, pop, portion, readily, sole, the discussion, verbose, voluminous
«The true harvest of my life is intangible - a little star dust caught, a portion of the rainbow I have clutched»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
all star, a little, catch on, catch up with, caught, clutched, clutches, clutching, dust, dusted, dusting, Dust to Dust, harvest, harvested, harvesting, harvests, intangible, intangibles, little, Over the Rainbow, portion, portion out, rainbow, Rainbows, star, starred, starring, The Catch, The Rainbow, the true, True Life, true to life
«The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Gifts
| Keywords:
gift, greatest, portion, portion out, The Greatest
