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«Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.»
Author: Anais Nin
(Author)
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Life
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expands, in proportion to, proportion, proportioned, shrank, shrinks, shrink from, shrunk
«Marital intercourse is certainly holy, lawful and praiseworthy in itself and profitable to society, yet in certain circumstances it can prove dangerous, as when through excess the soul is made sick with venial sin, or through the violation and perversion of its primary end, killed by mortal sin; such perversion, detestable in proportion to its departure from the true order, being always mortal sin, for it is never lawful to exclude the primary end of marriage which is the procreation of children.»
Author: St. Francis de Sales
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departure, detestable, in proportion to, marital, mortal sin, perversion, perversions, procreation, venial, venial sin, violation, violations
«Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
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in proportion to
«Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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esteems, in proportion to, rich in, voracity
«Men become civilized not in proportion to their willingness to believe but in proportion to their readiness to doubt»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
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Mankind
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in proportion to, readiness, willingness
«Respect for character is always diminished in proportion to the number among whom the blame or praise is to be divided.»
«Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
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at length, bestow, improves, in proportion to
«Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.»
«Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter, we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.»
«Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain»
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