cardinal virtues as that without which no other virtue can steadily be practiced; but he might‚ with equal propriety have placed prudence and justice before it. Since without prudence fortitude is mad; without justice it is dangerous. Only a fool or a suicide will jump into a river without making sure about the depths‚ eddies and whirlpools. And even there no one tests the depth of a river with both feet. Rashness has been unhappy parent of misfortune. Once in a blue moon it might bring us luck but more
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LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP ESSAY Tapiwa had served his employer faithfully for fifteen years. He had joined the company at the age of twenty and thrived to excel in every task that was given to him. The company rewarded him handsomely. He managed to get married to Tafadzwa after working for five years‚ and they had two beautiful children. The family enjoyed life since they could afford the very basics. Tapiwa drove to work while Tafadzwa stayed at home and took care of the household chores. The economy
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Look before you leap There is a proverb which is “Every man for himself‚ and the devil takes the hindmost.” It totally reflects the human nature. As a matter of fact‚ Human beings are selfish when they are born. To begin with‚ doing something to harm people but gain benefits to oneself is the most ordinary behavior of selfish. To your curiosity‚ you may want to know what benefits can prompt them to harm people. Obviously‚ money is not an isolated example. In accordance with the monstrous news
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“ Look before you leap” Meaning:- This idiom means that you should think carefully about the possible results or consequences before doing something. Look before you leap. Consider possible consequences before taking action Story:- Once a fox was roaming around in the dark. Unfortunately‚ he fell into a well. He tried his level best to come out but all in vain. So‚ he had no other alternative but to remain there till the next morning. The next day‚ a goat came that way. She peeped into
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taking additional mathematics courses at Georgia Tech‚ he was finally admitted to the Naval Academy in 1943. A state Senate seat was opened by the dissolution of Georgia’s County Unit System in 1962; Carter announced his run for the seat 15 days before the election. The initial results showed Carter losing but he challenged the results; when fraud was confirmed‚ a new election was held‚ which he won. Carter was re-elected in 1964 to serve a second two-year term. For a time in the State Senate‚ he
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No one person is perfect. Mistakes‚ just like water‚ are an essential part of life. It’s not for our faults that we should be judged; rather it’s the way we learn to accept our human nature and change for the better. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Puritanical novel‚ The Scarlet Letter‚ the main character‚ Hester Prynne‚ commits an offense of infidelity against her husband‚ Roger Chillingworth. From then on her secret affair with the Puritan minister will always be on her mind considering the degradation
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One-Page Play Script (Carter and Jackson are on horseback looking for a water source) Carter This way! It will take us straight to the river my pops was talkin’ about! Jackson Are you crazy you fool? That route will only get us more lost in the woods‚ and I’m afraid we might not make it out! Carter But I believe pops knew what he was talkin’ ’bout. He’s traveled around here many times before‚ he knows more than you do! Jackson I ain’t sayin’ I know more than pop does but I do have a
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One page business plan: „Build your shoe“ „Build your shoe“ is an online company where the customers can create their own shoes just as they want to. The target group is younger as well as older women who can afford a little bit more money as the shoes are exclusive. This goes along with the economic trend that even teenagers having more money and disposable income and therefore spending more money on exclusive and designer clothes. So the most important advantage of this business idea is that
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poem‚ he is in some strange way degrading her or just trying to get into her pants. On the flip‚ side I constantly see women being abused and still going back to their men only because he said‚ "I love you." I believe that is why women have been forced to be on the defensive. The Poem "One perfect Rose"(Pp 82) has brought to my attention: I as a man of little wealth‚ that doesn’t put me in a profitable position with the average woman that wants a limousine as opposed to a flower. In the first
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In her poem “One Perfect Rose‚” Dorothy Parker misleads the reader throughout the first and second stanzas into believing this poem is a romantic tribute to a tender moment from her past through her word choice and style of writing. However‚ the tone of the entire poem dramatically changes upon reading the third and final stanza when Parker allows the reader to understand her true intention of the poem‚ which is a cynical and perhaps bewildered view of the memory. And‚ with this shift in the tone
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