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Sentence count:254+74Posted:2016-07-15Updated:2020-07-24
Antonym: fromSimilar words: boCo.do.dogonosotoeMeaning: [tə; before a vowel; tʊ; stressed; tuː]  prep.1. (used for expressing motion or direction toward a point, person, place, or thing approached and reached, as opposed to from): They came to the house. 2. (used for expressing direction or motion or direction toward something) in the direction of; toward: from north to south. 3. (used for expressing limit of movement or extension): He grew to six feet. 4. (used for expressing contact or contiguity) on; against; beside; upon: a right uppercut to the jaw; Apply varnish to the surface. 5. (used for expressing a point of limit in time) before; until: to this day; It is ten minutes to six. We work from nine to five. 6. (used for expressing aim, purpose, or intention): going to the rescue. 7. (used for expressing destination or appointed end): sentenced to jail. 8. (used for expressing agency, result, or consequence): to my dismay; The flowers opened to the sun. 9. (used for expressing a resulting state or condition): He tore it to pieces. 10. (used for expressing the object of inclination or desire): They drank to her health. 11. (used for expressing the object of a right or claim): claimants to an estate. 12. (used for expressing limit in degree, condition, or amount): wet to the skin; goods amounting to $1000; Tomorrow's high will be 75 to 80°. 13. (used for expressing addition or accompaniment) with: He added insult to injury. They danced to the music. Where is the top to this box? 14. (used for expressing attachment or adherence): She held to her opinion. 15. (used for expressing comparison or opposition): inferior to last year's crop; The score is eight to seven. 16. (used for expressing agreement or accordance) according to; by: a position to one's liking; to the best of my knowledge. 17. (used for expressing reference, reaction, or relation): What will he say to this? 18. (used for expressing a relative position): parallel to the roof. 19. (used for expressing a proportion of number or quantity) in; making up: 12 to the dozen; 20 miles to the gallon. 20. (used for indicating the indirect object of a verb, for connecting a verb with its complement, or for indicating or limiting the application of an adjective, noun, or pronoun): Give it to me. I refer to your work. 21. (used as the ordinary sign or accompaniment of the infinitive, as in expressing motion, direction, or purpose, in ordinary uses with a substantive object.) 22. Math. raised to the power indicated: Three to the fourth is 81 (34 = 81). adv.23. toward a point, person, place, or thing, implied or understood. 24. toward a contact point or closed position: Pull the door to. 25. toward a matter, action, or work: We turned to with a will. 26. into a state of consciousness; out of unconsciousness: after he came to. 27. to and fro. See fro (def. 2).. 
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91 I have long since abandoned the notion that higher education is essential to either success or happiness. Hot houses of learning do not always grow anything edible. 
92 In education we are striving not to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life. 
93 It is a blind silly goose that comes to the fox’s sermon. 
94 Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. 
95 Educaton does not mean teaching people to kow what they do not know ; it means teachng them to behave as they do not behave. 
96 Better a little fire to warm us[Sentence dictionary], than a great one to burn us. 
97 They that reckon without their host are to reckon twice. 
98 Those that make the best use of their time have none to spare. 
99 It is no honour for an eagle to vanquish a dove. 
100 Almost any situation---good or bad ---is affected by the attitude we bring to
101 I don'nt know who my grandfather was. I' m much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. 
102 A politician is a man who undertands government, and it takes a poiltician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead ten or fifeen years. 
103 The sum ofbehavior is to retain a man's own dignity, without in -truing upon the liberty ofothers. 
104 There is no paradise on earth equal to the union of love and innocence. 
105 For a cultivated man to be ignorant of foreign languages is a great inconveniece. 
106 Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning. 
107 There is no paradise on earth equal to the union of love andd innocence. 
108 The object of educator is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. 
109 Always taking out of the meal-tub and never putting in, soon comes to the bottom. 
110 Love as in time to come you should hate, and hate as you should in time to come, love. 
111 The time of life is short ; to spend that shortness basely, it would be too long. 
112 I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. 
113 The sum of behaviour is to retain a man's own dignity, without intruding upon the liberty of others. 
114 With close friends in their lives,people develop courage and positive attitudes.Teenagers have the moral support to assert their individuality;the elderly approach their advanced years with optimism and an interest in life. 
115 War is much too important to be left to the military. 
116 Do not to others what you do not wish them to do to you. 
117 Their is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize. 
118 The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease. 
119 A lamb is as dear to a poor man as an ox to the rich. 
120 The world is a ladder for some to go up and others to go down. 
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