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• How defeated and restless the child that is not doing something in which it sees a purpose, a meaning! It is by its self-directed activity that the child, as years pass, finds its work, the thing it wants to do and for which it finally is willing to deny itself pleasure, ease, even sleep and comfort.

  Ida Tarbell

  Children, Work, Sleep

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• Personal change, growth, development, identity formation--these tasks that once were thought to belong to childhood and adolescence alone now are recognized as part of adult life as well. Gone is the belief that adulthood is, or ought to be, a time of internal peace and comfort, that growing pains belong only to the young; gone the belief that these are marker events--a job, a mate, a child--through which we will pass into a life of relative ease.

  Lillian B. Rubin

  Jobs, Children, Pain

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• The characteristic of a well-bred man is, to converse with his inferiors without insolence, and with his superiors with respect and with ease.

  Doug Stanhope

  Respect, Men, Courtesy

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• we must be as satisfied to be powerless, idle and still before God, and dried up and barren when He permits it, as to be full of life, enjoying His presence with ease and devotion. The whole matter of our union with God consists in being content either way.

  Jane Frances de Chantal

  God, Enjoy Life, Unions

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• Such is the art of writing as Dreiser understands it and practices it--an endless piling up of minutiae, an almost ferocious tracking down of ions, electrons and molecules, an unshakable determination to tell it all. One is amazed by the mole-like diligence of the man, and no less by his exasperating disregard for the ease of his readers.

  H. L. Mencken

  Art, Determination, Writing

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• What harm is there in dreaming, if it eases pain? What good is reality, if it blots out hope? Can a man's mind be washed without bleaching his soul?

  Bette Lord

  Dream, Pain, Reality

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• A gentleman has ease without familiarity, is respectful without meanness; genteel without affectation, insinuating without seeming art.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Art, Gentleman, Respectful

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• True politeness is perfect ease and freedom. It simply consists in treating others just as you love to be treated yourself.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Perfect, Treating Others, Politeness

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• The manner of a vulgar man has freedom without ease, and the manner of a gentleman has ease without freedom.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Men, Gentleman, He Man

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• My wealth is health and perfect ease; My conscience clear my chief defence; I neither seek by bribes to please, Nor by deceit to breed offence. Thus do I live; thus will I die. Would all did so well as I!

  Edward Dyer

  Perfect, Deceit, Wealth

  1588 'In Praise of a Contented Mind'.

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• The only way to ease our fear and be truly happy is to acknowledge our fear and look deeply at its source. Instead of trying to escape from our fear, we can invite it up to our awareness and look at it clearly and deeply.

  Nhat Hanh

  Happy, Fear, Trying

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2012). “Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• A noble cause doth ease much a grievous case.

  Philip Sidney

  Noble, Causes, Cases

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.121

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• Today the manliest man would be ashamed to look into the eyes of the woman by his side and tell her that he is the master because he could knock her down with perfect ease, and break her bones with much greater facility than she could his. And yet, out of man's brute nature, out of that most ignoble in himself, has come his loudest assumption of superiority, his longest and lowest tyranny.

  Mary C. Ames

  Eye, Men, Perfect

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• If a woman is not fit to manage the internal matters of a house, she is fit for nothing, and should never be put in a house or over a house, any way. Good housekeeping lies at he root of all the real ease and satisfaction in existence.

  Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford

  Real, Lying, Roots

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• Heart's-ease is a flower which blooms from the grave of desire.

  William Rounseville Alger

  Flower, Heart, Desire

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• Nothing more strongly marks the insufficiency of luxuries than the ease with which people grow accustomed to them; they are rather known by their want than by their presence. The word 'blasé' has been coined expressly for the use of the upper classes.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Class, Luxury, People

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1841). “The Works of L. E. Landon: In Two Volumes”, p.118

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• Be not in the desire of thine own ease.

  Saadi

  Desire, Selfishness

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• Nature has made us passive, and to suffer is our lot. While we are in the flesh every man has his chain and his clog; only it is looser and lighter to one man than to another, and he is more at ease who takes it up and carries it than he who drags it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Suffering, Flesh

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• Let ease and rest at times be given to the weary.

  Seneca the Younger

  Given, Weary

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• I would never kill myself intentionally. I couldn't do that to my family, my friends ... But to have fate step in and give me a shove, that's a different matter. Then I have the exit, without the guilt. I am ashamed of myself for thinking like this. But more than anything, I am frightened that it makes me feel so much better to think about it. Sometimes it eases the terror, the sense that I am condemned eternally to this hell.

  Martha Manning

  Suicidal, Fate, Thinking

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• It is the great destiny of human science, not to ease man's labors or prolong his life, noble as those ends may be nor to serve the ends of power, but to enable man to walk upright without fear in a world which he at length will understand and which is his home.

  Paul Sears

  Home, Destiny, Men

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• I taught myself to name my name,
  To bark back, loosen love and crying;
  To ease my woman so she came,
  To ease an old man who was dying.

  W. D. Snodgrass

  Education, Men, Names

  W. D. Snodgrass, “April Inventory”

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• The male's difficulties in his sexual relations after marriage include a lack of facility, of ease, or of suavity in establishing rapport in a sexual situation.

  Alfred Kinsey

  Marriage, Sex, Males

  Alfred C. Kinsey (1998). “Sexual Behavior in the Human Male”, p.545, Indiana University Press

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• Most of us do more than subsist. From the vantage point of our ancestors, we live lives of almost unimaginable ease. Here again, we have innovation to thank.

  Gary Hamel

  Live Life, Innovation, Vantage Point

  Gary Hamel (2012). “What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation”, p.54, John Wiley & Sons

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• There is a mortifying experience in particular, which does not fail to wreak itself also in the general history; I mean "the foolish face of praise," the forced smile which we put on in company where we do not feel at ease, in answer to conversation which does not interest us. The muscles, not spontaneously moved but moved, by a low usurping wilfulness, grow tight about the outline of the face, with the most disagreeable sensation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mean, Doe, Answers

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.246, Рипол Классик

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