“ 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- Copy
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“ The more helpless you are, the better you are fitted to pray, and the more answers to prayer you will experience. ”
- Hallesby- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness. ”
- John Dewey- Copy
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“ Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys. ”
- John Christian Bovee- Copy
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“ Who has skill in the art of music is of good temperament and fitted for all things. ”
- Martin Luther- Copy
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“ Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear. ”
- Marcus Aurelius- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ Fragments came floating into his mind like bits of wood drifting down a stream, and he fished them out and fitted them together. ”
- Elizabeth Gray Vining- Copy
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“ As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless. ”
- Clarence Day- Copy
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“ It is much easier to seem fitted for posts we do not fill, than for those we do. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
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“ AFFIANCED, pp. Fitted with an ankle-ring for the ball-and-chain. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ Opportunity can benefit no man who has not fitted himself to seize it and use it. Opportunity woos the worthy, shuns the unworthy. Prepare yourself to grasp opportunity, and opportunity is likely to come your way. It is not so fickle, capricious and unreasoning as some complain. ”
- B.C. Forbes- Copy
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“ Of all cursed places under the sun, where the hungriest soul can hardly pick up a few grains of knowledge, a girls boarding-school is the worst. They are called finishing schools, and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything but imbecility and weakness, and that they cultivate… ”
- Olive Schreiner- Copy
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“ She even had a kind of special position among men: she was an exception, she fitted none of the categories they commonly used when talking about girls; she wasn't a cock-teaser, a cold fish, an easy lay or a sneaky bitch; she was an honorary person. ”
- Margaret Atwood- Copy
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“ As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too. ”
- Johnny Depp- Copy
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“ The government's objective, broadly expressed, is that all persons, whatever their level of ability, whether they live in town or country, have a right as citizens to a free education of the kind for which they are best fitted and to the fullest extent of their powers. ”
- Peter Fraser- Copy
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“ Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as a kind of common property which, like the air and the water, belongs to everybody, I set myself to consider in what way mankind might be best served, and what service I was myself best fitted by nature to perform. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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