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«A properly kept silence is a beautiful thing; it is nothing less than the father of very wise thoughts»
«Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.»
«A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.»
Author: St. Jerome | Keywords: difficulty, hardly, kept, sought
«A prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages.»
«I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiousity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.»
«Character is easier kept than recovered»
Author: English Proverb | About: Character | Keywords: kept, recovered, recovering, recovers
«Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night.»
«Character is much easier kept than recovered.»
«His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork»
«Civilization will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will»

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