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“Mountains in all their moods are symbols of something greater, something worth aspiring to. Mountains are powerful, dangerous, beautiful, noble and mysterious. Mountains get respect.”

Beautiful Powerful Greater Dangerous Mountain Noble Mood Mysterious Symbols

Author:Robert Genn

“Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others. Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.”

Giving Bigs Past Left Forget Mistake Worry Greater Achievement Optimism Presses Noble Criticize Improving Improving Yourself Time Left Optimism In Life

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“The truths which are represented in England and Western countries generally, are those which refer to force of character, earnestness of purpose, conscientious strictness, noble charity, practical duty, whilst the truths which I find peculiarly developed in India - developed to a greater extent than anywhere else, - and in the Eastern countries generally, are those which have reference to sweetness of communion, sweetness of temper, meekness and resignation unto God.”

Country Character Purpose Force Greater Duty India England Charity Western Noble Practicals Temper Communion Sweetness Eastern Resignation Meekness Earnestness

Author:Keshub Chandra Sen

“You are killing me, fish, the old man thought. But you have a right to. Never have I seen a greater, or more beautiful, or a calmer or more noble thing than you, brother.”

Men Beautiful Greater Sea Brother Rivers Killing Fishes Noble Boat Lakes Fishing Old Man Calmer Fish In The Sea

Book:The Old Man and the Sea

Source: The Old Man and the Sea

“It is for us to discharge the high duties that devolve on us, and carry our race onward. To be no better, no wiser, no greater than the past is to be little and foolish and bad; it is to misapply noble means, to sacrifice glorious opportunities for the performance of sublime deeds, to become cumberers of the ground.”

Mean Littles Past Opportunity Race Greater Progress Sacrifice Duty Performances Deeds Noble Foolish Glorious Wiser Sublime Discharge

Book:Selections from the writings and speeches of William Lloyd Garrison: With an appendix ...

Source: Selections from the writings and speeches of William Lloyd Garrison: With an appendix ...

“Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.”

Mother Passion Grows Greater Vices Noble Satisfied Insatiable

Author:Honore de Balzac

“Some crimes get honor and renown by being committed with more pomp, by a greater number, and in a higher degree of wickedness thanothers. Hence it is that public robberies, plunderings, and sackings have been looked upon as excellencies and noble achievements, and the seizing of whole countries, however unjustly and barbarously, is dignified with the glorious name of gaining conquests.”

Has Beens Country Whole Names Numbers Greater Crime Higher Honor Degrees Achievement Committed Noble Glorious Conquest Wickedness Robbery Seizing Renown Sacking

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“It is not the eye that sees the beauty of the heaven, nor the ear that hears the sweetness of music or the glad tidings of a prosperous occurrence, but the soul, that perceives all the relishes of sensual and intellectual perfections; and the more noble and excellent the soul is, the greater and more savory are its perceptions.”

Soul Eye Heaven Greater Perspective Perception Intellectual Perfection Ears Noble Glad Sensual Excellent Perceive Sweetness Prosperous Relish Tidings Savory Eyes That See

Author:Jeremy Taylor

“It was truly very good reason that we should be beholden to God only, and to the favour of his grace, for the truth of so noble a belief, since from his sole bounty we receive the fruit of immortality, which consists in the enjoyment of eternal beatitude.... The more we give and confess to owe and render to God, we do it with the greater Christianity.”

Giving Should Reason Belief Christianity Greater Grace Eternal Fruit Very Good Noble Immortality Enjoyment Sole Favour Bounty

Book:Annotated Essays of Michel de Montaigne with English Grammar Exercises: by Michel de Montaigne (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)

Source: Annotated Essays of Michel de Montaigne with English Grammar Exercises: by Michel de Montaigne (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)