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«History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it.»
Author: Walter Bagehot
(Analyst, Economist, Editor)
| Keywords:
manliness, Movements, progressiveness, strew, strewn, the Wrecks, wrecks
«Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.»
Author: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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Bridge of Sighs, disappointed, gulf, gulfs, Gulf of, hardened, interval, marked, narrow mind, nine times, profits, recover, sighs, sorrows, The Bridge, The Bridge of Sighs, the Wrecks, undergone, wrecks
«So, dear friend, put fear out of your heart. This nation will survive, this state will prosper, the orderly business of life will go forward if only men can speak in whatever way given them to utter what their hearts hold -- by voice, by posted card, by letter or by press. Reason never has failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.»
Author: William Allen White
(Journalist)
| Keywords:
business letter, card, go forward, hold dear, orderly, posted, prosper, put forward, repression, the Wrecks, utter, wrecks
«Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.»
«The mistakes of the learned man are like a shipwreck which wrecks many others with it»
«The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion.»
«We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-coast with its wrecks, the wilderness with its living and its decaying trees, the thunder-cloud, and the rain.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
cloud, coast, coasting, Coast to Coast, decaying, features, inexhaustible, like thunder, rain cloud, refreshed, refreshes, refreshing, sea-coast, The Sea, the Wilderness, the Wrecks, thunder, thundered, thundering, titanic, vast, vigor, wilderness, wildernesses, wrecking, wrecks
«Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.»
Author: Richard Bach
(Writer)
| About:
Civilization,
World
| Keywords:
planet, the Wrecks, wrecking, wrecks
«But, good my brother, do not, as some ungracious pastors do. Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven whilst like a puffed and reckless libertine himself the primrose path of dalliance treads and wrecks not his own.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
dalliance, libertine, Libertines, Pastor, pastors, primrose, primroses, primrose path, puffed, puffs, reckless, Show Me, steep, thorny, treads, ungracious, wrecks
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