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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
«A man is proportioned directly from the rich foods he lets alone»
«Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.»
«I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic -- in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.»
Author: Anais Nin
(Author)
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«There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
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Beauty
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excellent, proportion, proportioned, strangeness
«A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself.»
Author: Thomas Kempis
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Religion
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distracted, distracting, distracts, draws, draw in, draw up, hindered, hindering, How to draw, i drew, outward, proportion, proportioned
«A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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afford, afforded, affording, alone, in proportion to, let alone, Let Me Alone, numb, number, proportion, proportioned, rich, rich in
«If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself, or even less, in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct; and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight.»
Author: Leonardo da Vinci
(Architect, Engineer, Painter, Sculptor)
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accompanied, accompanying, alone, belong, companion, conduct, conducts, deeply, entirely, fall, half, in proportion to, less, plight, plighted, proportion, proportioned, thoughtlessness
«Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage, and be as ill received, as your person, though ever so well-proportioned, would if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
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coarse, disadvantage, ever so, proportioned, rags, tatter, tattered, tatters, well-proportioned
«Moderation, which consists in an indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
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Moderation
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acquaintance, foundation, importance, indifference, moderation, proceed, proportioned, prudent, well-proportioned, with moderation, zeal
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