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«Psychologically I should say that a person becomes an adult at the point when he produces more than he consumes or earns more than he spends. This may be a the age of eighteen, twenty-five, or thirty-five. Some people remain unproductive and dependent children forever and therefore intellectually and emotionally immature.»
Author: Henry C. Link
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consumes, dependent, earns, eighteen, emotionally, immature, psychologically, spends, Twenty Five, unproductive
«Rust consumes iron and envy consumes itself.»
«There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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blunderer, consumes, fatal, getting, greater, living, no more, part, There is no
«Passion in all its forms is a mental thirst, a fever, a torturing unrest. As a fire consumes a magnificent building, reducing it to a heap of unsightly ashes, so are men consumed by the flames of passions, and their deeds and works fall and perish.»
«The painful Preacher, like a candle bright, Consumes himself in giving others Light.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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consumes, preacher
«Sloth like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright»
«Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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consumes, earth, man, More, nothing, on earth, passion, quickly, resentment, resentments, Than, The Passion
«The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.»
«The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable. The elements have no forbearance. The fire burns, the water drowns, the air consumes, the earth buries. And perhaps it would be well for our race if the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Man were as inevitable as the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Nature /were Man as unerring in his judgments as Nature.»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
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be well, buries, Burns, consequence, consumes, drowns, elements, forbearance, inseparable, judgments, Laws of nature, No Mercy, The Elements, the laws of nature, unerring
«The same fire which purifies gold, consumes straw»
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