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• Soy muy defectuoso en todos los deberes... En la oración divago y soy formal... Me canso pronto; la devoción languidece; y no camino con Dios.

  William Carey

  Prayer, Missionary, Tire

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• Thus I reel from desire to fulfillment and in fulfillment languish for desire.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Desire, Fulfillment

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1976). “Faust: a tragedy : backgrounds and sources, the author on the drama, contemporary reactions, modern criticism”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• In our country they do not permit any information to be X-rayed through and through, nor any discussion to encompass all the facets of a subject. All this is invariably suppressed at the very beginning, so no ray of light should fall on the naked body of truth. And then all this is piled up in one formless heap covering many years, where it languishes for whole decades, until all interest and all means of sorting out the rusty blocks from all this trash are lost.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Country, Block, Fall

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• Getting the economy back on its feet is properly viewed as an investment in future prosperity. When businesses and consumers confront attractive investment opportunities, often the only way to seize them is by borrowing. The same is true for government. Contrary to the pronouncements of critics of economic stimulus, these investments will not impoverish our grandchildren. Continuing to allow the economy to languish in recession is the surest way to impoverish them.

  Robert H. Frank

  Opportunity, Grandchildren, Feet

  Fuente: bobmorris.biz

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• Foul jealousy! that turnest love divine to joyless dread, and makest the loving heart with hateful thoughts to languish and to pine.

  Edmund Spenser

  Jealousy, Heart, Hateful

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• Every desire bears its death in its very gratification. Curiosity languishes under repeated stimulants, and novelties cease to excite and surprise, until at length we cannot wonder even at a miracle.

  Washington Irving

  Miracle, Curiosity, Desire

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• Whichever way we look the prospect is disagreeable. Behind, we have left pleasures we shall never enjoy, and therefore regret; and before, we see pleasures which we languish to possess, and are consequently uneasy till we possess them.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Regret, Looks, Way

  Oliver Goldsmith, David Masson (1869). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith”, p.157

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• Fame and admiration weigh not a feather in the scale against friendship and love, for the heart languishes all the same.

  George Sand

  Heart, Love And Friendship, And Love

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• Leaving American disaster victims to languish is morally reprehensible and un-American.

  Cedric Richmond

  Leaving, Victim, Disaster

  "Season of Calamities Necessitates Compassion Aid: Don’t Require Offsets for Emergency Disaster Relief" by Cedric L. Richmond, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 1, 2011.

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• I believe we're at the verge of the greatest time to be alive in this world. But Washington is holding us back. How we tax, how we regulate. We're not embracing the energy revolution in our midst, a broken immigration system that has been politicized rather than turning it into an economic driver. We're not protecting and preserving our entitlement system or reforming for the next generation. All these things languish while we have politicians in Washington using these as wedge issues.

  Jeb Bush

  Believe, Issues, Broken

  "Transcript of the 2015 GOP debate (9 pm)". www.cbsnews.com. August 6, 2015.

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• And yet our distress comes from no failure of substance. We are stricken by no plague of locusts. Compared with the perils which our forefathers conquered, because they believed and were not afraid, we have still much to be thankful for. Nature still offers her bounty and human efforts have multiplied it. Plenty is at our doorstep, but a generous use of it languishes in the very sight of the supply.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Sight, Effort, Being Thankful

  Primer discurso inaugural, pronunciado el 4 de marzo de 1933

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• Every time is a time for comedy in a world of tension that would languish without it. But I cannot confine myself to lightness in a period of human life that demands light. We all know that, as the old adage has it, "It is later than you think." But I also say occasionally: "It is lighter than you think." In this light let's not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

  James Thurber

  Thinking, Light, Looks

  "Lanterns and Lances". Book by James Thurber. Foreword, 1961.

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• Muchos de nosotros tenemos todo tipo de ideas, seleccionamos unas más que otras y las plasmamos... y algunas obras de arte tienen más éxito que otras. Algunas languidecen en la oscuridad y nunca más se vuelve a saber de ellas, mientras que otras forman los cimientos de toda una escuela de arte.

  Rupert Sheldrake

  Arte, Escuela, Éxito

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• Hacer, un placer sucio es, y corto; Y hecho, nos arrepentimos directamente del deporte: No nos precipitemos ciegamente, como bestias lujuriosas que sólo saben hacerlo: Porque la lujuria languidecerá, y ese calor decaerá, Pero así, así, guardando el Santo sin fin-.

  Ben Jonson

  Sports, Lust, Decay

  Ben Jonson (1838). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.740

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• If we are to elevate the game of chess to a popular sport, grandmasters must become gladiators, otherwise the game will languish on the periphery, a voice crying in the wilderness, condemned to live and die on a cold arctic shore.

  Michael Basman

  Sports, Games, Voice

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• He [man] abuses equally other animals and his own species, the rest of whom live in famine, languish in misery, and work only to satisfy the immoderate appetite and the still more insatiable vanity of this human being who, destroying others by want, destroys himself by excess.

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Conde de Buffon

  Animal, Hombres, Vanidad

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• Applaud us when we prevail, correct us when we fail; but, above all, do not let this indispensable, irreplaceable institution wither, languish or perish as a result of Member States' indifference, inattention or financial starvation.

  Kofi Annan

  Inattention, Financial, Indifference

  Kofi Atta Annan (1998). "The quotable Kofi Annan: selections from speeches and statements by the Secretary-General", Naciones Unidas

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• Soy como un marino nacido y criado a bordo de un bergantín bucanero, cuya alma se ha acostumbrado tanto a la tormenta y a la lucha que, si lo echasen a tierra, se cansaría y languidecería por muy seductoras que fuesen las umbrías arboledas y por muy brillante que fuese el suave sol.

  Mijaíl Lermontov

  Soul, Storm, Boards

  "Un héroe de nuestro tiempo". Libro de Mijaíl Lermontov, 1841.

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• Cuando los amigos se enfrían, y la conversación de los íntimos languidece en insípida urbanidad y lugares comunes, éstos sólo mantienen el semblante inalterado de días más felices, y nos animan con esa verdadera amistad que nunca engañó a la esperanza, ni abandonó a la tristeza.

  Washington Irving

  Animo, Verdadero Amigo, Real

  Washington Irving (1840). "Las obras de Washington Irving", p.192

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• Modesty never rages, never murmurs, never pouts; when it is ill-treated, it pines, it beseeches, it languishes.

  Richard Steele

  Modesty, Rage, Ill

  Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison (1774). “The Tatler; Or, Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq”, p.106

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• La mayoría de los sueños mueren lentamente. Se conciben en un momento de pasión, con la perspectiva de un sinfín de posibilidades, pero a menudo languidecen y no se persiguen con la misma intensidad sincera que cuando nacieron. Lenta y sutilmente, un sueño se vuelve esquivo y efímero. Las personas que han perdido sus propios sueños se vuelven pesimistas y cínicas. Sienten que el tiempo y la devoción invertidos en perseguir sus sueños fueron en vano. Las cicatrices emocionales duran para siempre.

  Dean Karnazes

  Dream, Passion, Emotional

  Dean Karnazes (2017). “Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner”, p.78, Atlantic Books

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• Distance... is like futurity. A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those of our vision... But alas! when we have attained our object, when the distant 'there' becomes the present 'here,' all is changed; we are as poor and circumscribed as ever, and our souls still languish for unattainable happiness.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Distance, Soul, Mind

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2017). “The Sorrows of Young Werther (English German Edition, illustrated): Die Leiden des jungen Werther (Englisch Deutsch Ausgabe illustriert)”, p.51, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• How can I ever trust you? (Acheron) You can’t. But I have lived inside your memories for the last three years. I know the pain you hide. I know the pain I caused. If I stay here, I will go mad from the screams. If I return to the Vanishing Isle, I’ll languish there alone and in time I will probably learn to hate you all over again. I don’t want to hate you anymore, Acheron. You are a god who can control human fate. Is it not possible that there was a reason why we were joined together? Surely the Fates meant for us to be brothers. (Styxx)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Brother, Pain, Memories

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• Believe me, it is a great deal better to find cast-iron proof that you're innocent than to languish in a cell hoping that the police---who already think you're guilty---will find it for you.

  Douglas Adams

  Believe, Thinking, Cells

  Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.132, Simon and Schuster

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• Ahora, pues, mientras el matiz juvenil se asienta en tu piel como el rocío de la mañana, y mientras tu alma dispuesta transpira en cada poro fuegos instantáneos, divirtámonos mientras podamos, y ahora, como amorosas aves de rapiña, más bien devoremos de una vez nuestro tiempo que languidezcamos en su lento poder. Enrollemos nuestra fuerza y toda nuestra dulzura en una bola Y rasguemos nuestros placeres con áspera lucha A través de las puertas de hierro de la vida: Así, aunque no podamos hacer que nuestro sol se detenga, lo haremos correr.

  Andrew Marvell

  Deporte, Correr, Mañana

  c.1650-1652 'To His Coy Mistress' (published 1681).

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