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thoroughly
«Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.»
Author: Satchel Paige
| About:
Power,
Praise,
Virtue
| Keywords:
blame, characteristics, cheered, excellent, grieved, powers, thoroughly
«One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them»
Author: Thomas Sowell
(Economist, Writer)
| About:
Failure,
Honor,
People
| Keywords:
and how, appreciate, dishonorable, failings, honorable, some other, thoroughly
«Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. It is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.»
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
(Biologist)
| About:
Education,
Tolerance
| Keywords:
learns, lesson, like it, most-valuable, thoroughly, training
«I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Egotism,
witty
| Keywords:
The World I, thoroughly
«Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
ford, fords, freely, No Man, shallows, Thee, thoroughly
«Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.»
Author: Elbert Hubbard
| About:
Expectation
| Keywords:
answers, desires, disappoint, disappoints, expectation, gives, meet, satisfaction, satisfactions, thoroughly, though, yet
«I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
belongs, community, die, die hard, harder, I Want to Live, long, opinion, privilege, thoroughly, used, used up, whatever, whole
«I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Life,
Work
| Keywords:
die hard, harder, rejoice, sake, thoroughly, used, used up
«I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Challenge,
Quarrels
| Keywords:
disapprove, disapproves, disapproving, duel, duels, forgivingly, hand, kill, kindlier, kindliest, kindly, lead, leading man, quiet, taking place, the Hand, thoroughly