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«A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.»
Author: Edward Gibbon (Historian) | Keywords: contrive, contrives, contriving, execute, executes, executing, hand, head, resolve, resolving
«If you must commit suicide... always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of death, should never be lost sight of.»
Author: George Borrow | Keywords: contrive, decencies, decorously
«This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought. Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land. Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.»
Author: Aristophanes | About: Fighting | Keywords: blister, blistered, blisters, contrive, fees, grieves, lance, lances, lancing, native land, oar, pilfer, pilfering, to this day
«The greatest problem with women is how to contrive that they should seem our equals»
Author: Cyril Connolly | About: Problems, Women | Keywords: contrive, equals
«In every deed of mischief he [Comenus] had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.»
Author: Edward Gibbon (Historian) | Keywords: contrive, contrives, contriving, deed, execute, mischief, resolve
«Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.»
Author: Edmund Burke (Philosopher, Statesman) | About: Taxation | Keywords: add to, bungler, bunglers, compositions, contrive, projector, projectors, taxing
«How can you contrive to write so even?»
Author: Jane Austen (Novelist, Writer) | Keywords: contrive, contrives, contriving
«War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli | About: Peace, War | Keywords: breathing, breathing time, contrive, contriving, execute, furnishes, leisure, leisure time, prince
«If a book comes from the heart it will contrive to reach other hearts. All art and author craft are of small account to that.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle (Essayist, Historian) | Keywords: account, contrive, contrives, contriving, craft, crafted, crafts, from the heart, The Craft, to that
«Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!»
Author: Thomas Carlyle (Essayist, Historian) | About: Health | Keywords: contrive, contrives, contriving, ill health, manage
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