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«If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my ax»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| Keywords:
axes, by the hour, chop, chopping, chop down, down, downed, Down in It, Down Under, Down With Me, eight, had, hours, sharpened, sharpening, six, spend, take down, Tree
«As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate lovingly, our own»
Author: Margaret Mead
| About:
Learning,
Travel
| Keywords:
appreciate, culture, doorstep, doorsteps, lovingly, scrutinize, scrutinized, scrutinizing, sharpen, sharpened, sharpening, steadily, Their culture, The Traveler, traveler, wiser
«A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you.»
Author: Henri Matisse
(Artist, Painter)
| About:
Women
| Keywords:
claw, clawing, claws, sharpened, sharpening, young woman
«Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, / Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD; Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished: / It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, as every tree.»
«And he hath given it to be furbished, that it may be handled: this sword is sharpened, and it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the slayer.»
«As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision»
Author: Helen Keller
(Author, Educator)
| Keywords:
clears, cloud, complaint, pervert, perverting, perverts, selfishness, sharpened, sharpening, sharpens, The Vision, vision
«Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Absence
| Keywords:
absence, blows, brings, Burns, clear, fuel, fueled, fuels, fuel in, presence, sharpen, sharpened, sharpening, strengthens, till
«People need trouble -- a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
artists, endurance, fortitude, frustration, frustrations, gutter, gutters, hole, rat, sharpen, sharpened, sharpening, toughen, Vegetables