Sentence example with the word 'impoverishing'

impoverishing

Last update: August 15, 2015


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I do not mean to prescribe rules to strong and valiant natures, who will mind their own affairs whether in heaven or hell, and perchance build more magnificently and spend more lavishly than the richest, without ever impoverishing themselves, not knowing how they live--if, indeed, there are any such, as has been dreamed; nor to those who find their encouragement and inspiration in precisely the present condition of things, and cherish it with the fondness and enthusiasm of lovers--and, to some extent, I reckon myself in this number; I do not speak to those who are well employed, in whatever circumstances, and they know whether they are well employed or not;--but mainly to the mass of men who are discontented, and idly complaining of the hardness of their lot or of the times, when they might improve them.   [Please select]

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"And for every one's sake run no further risk of impoverishing yourself."   [Please select]

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The time was surely not far distant when Spain would welcome recognition as a relief from an impoverishing and hopeless war.   [Please select]

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Like the Teutonic chiefs of old, he ingratiates himself with his young men by making them presents, thereby often impoverishing himself.   [Please select]

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He reprints extended selections from that memorable debate and then, by extended references to later official reports, points out how slavery is impoverishing the South.   [Please select]

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Since, then, a nation, like universal humanity, is a vast industrial association which cannot act outside of itself, it is clear that no man can enrich himself without impoverishing another.   [Please select]

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