Quotes with fitted

  • The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.
  • It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.
  • Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

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  • William Cowper Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Caroline Winberg A lot of American guys wear really wide legged jeans and square shoes. Then they come to Sweden and think my friends are gay because they're wearing 'really tight jeans'. It's called 'fitted!'
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  • Queen Victoria I am every day more convinced that we women, if we are to be good women, feminine and amiable and domestic, are not fitted to reign; at least it is they that drive themselves to the work which it entails.
    Queen Victoria
    Queen of Great Britain (1819 - 1901)
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  • Adelbert von Chamisso I will give you three days to seek your shadow. Return to me in the course of that time with a well-fitted shadow, and you shall receive a hearty welcome; otherwise, on the fourth day - remember, on the fourth day - my daughter becomes the wife of another.
    Adelbert von Chamisso
    German writer, liar and explorer (1781 - 1838)
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  • Alice Munro In twenty years I've never had a day when I didn't have to think about someone else's needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it.
    Alice Munro
    Canadian short story writer (1931 - )
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  • Adam Weishaupt It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.
    Adam Weishaupt
    German philosopher (1748 - 1830)
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  • John Bunyan Nothing can render affliction so insupportable as the load of sin. Would you then be fitted for afflictions? Be sure to get the burden of your sins laid aside, and then what affliction soever you may meet with will be very easy to you.
    John Bunyan
    British writer (1628 - 1688)
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  • Charles M. Schwab The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.
    Charles M. Schwab
    American industrialist (1862 - 1939)
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  • Thornton Wilder The theatre is supremely fitted to say: ''Behold! These things are.'' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: ''This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.''
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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  • Carl Clinton Van Doren The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.
    Carl Clinton Van Doren
    American critic and biographer (1885 - 1980)
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  • John Dewey To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
    John Dewey
    American philosopher (1859 - 1952)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Martin Luther Who has skill in the art of music is of good temperament and fitted for all things.
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