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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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121 It's easy to fall into a trap, but hard to get out again. 
122 It is discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. 
123 True wisdom is know what is best worth knowing, and to do what is best worth doing. 
124 The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the man who borrows, and the man who lends. 
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125 I have nothing to offer but blood, toil tears and sweat. 
126 All cats love fish but fear to wet their paws. 
127 We must go on to do all in our power to conquer the doubts and the fears, the ignorance and the greed, which made this horror possible. 
128 What is learned in the cradle is carried to the grave [tomb]. 
129 The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquirde it. 
130 Envy is blind and kows nothing except how to depreciate the excellence of others. 
131 Dogs wag their tails not so much in love to you as your bread. 
132 Disease, enemy, and debt --these three must be cut off as soon as they begin to grow. 
133 Those who complain most are most to be complained of. 
134 The principal thing in this world is to keep one's soul aloft. 
135 A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches. 
136 Expericence is not what happens to a man ; it is what a man does with what happens to him. 
137 The man who has made up his mind to win will never say "impossible ". 
138 The family you came from isn't as important as the family you are going to have. 
139 Fame usually comes to those who are thinking something else. 
140 It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty[sentencedict.com], or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self. 
141 The most normal and the most perfect human being is the one who most thoroughly addresses himself to the activity of his best powers,gives himself most thoroughly to the world around him,flings himself out into the midst of humanity,and is so preoccu pied by his own beneficent reaction on the world that he is practically unconscious of a sep arate existence... 
142 Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. Joseph Addison 
143 I don' t want to go home in the dark. 
144 There is a great deal of difference between the eager man who wants to read a book, and the tired man who wants a book to read. 
145 A wife is not to be chosen by the eye only. 
146 The best of all governments is that which teaches us to govern ourselves. 
147 Do not, for one repulse, give up the purpose that you resolved to effect. 
148 If the mountain will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the mountain. 
149 There is more trouble in having nothing to do than in having much to do. 
150 There is always a first brave person who breaks step with the stam-peding masses fleeing in panic, who pauses to help another to his feet,creating his own eye in the storm, The stuff of heroes is made, forged in the midst of tragedy, in the blink of an eye. 
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