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yield
«Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would gladly yield every honor which has been accorded me in war»
Author: Douglas MacArthur
(General)
| About:
Honor,
Peace,
War
| Keywords:
accorded, advance, century, contribution, crediting, gladly, hence, line of credit, yield
«Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.»
Author: Immanuel Kant
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
concepts, constitute, corresponded, corresponding, corresponds, elements, intuition, in some way, The Elements, yield
«Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Perseverance
| Keywords:
frugality, industry, perseverance, yield
«Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
Against the man, criticism, criticisms, defend, gradually, neither, protest, protested, protesting, protests, spite, yield, yield up
«Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
all told, as required, courage, Do, really, requires, strength, Tell, tell on, temptation, temptations, terrible, There are, The Telling, The Temptations, think, weakness, yield, yields, yield up
«If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
by the hour, congress, errs, fifty, Fifty one, lawyers, one hundred, one hundred fifty, send, trade, yield
«Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night!»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
Days of Heaven, heavens, hung, yield
