All cultivation requires watchfulness and additional precautions, either more or less: you must not, for the sake of a few superable difficulties, resign the otherwise unattainable refinement effected by poetry. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Lady's Mentor A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends] Reference
But, were I to allow, that the obstacle in question, is as great, as you regard it -- nevertheless will it not increase with the lapse of years, and become less superable the longer the work of abolition is postponed?. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference
No inconvenience is less superable by art or diligence than the inclemency of climates, and therefore none affords more proper exercise for this philosophical abstraction. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II] Reference
It is indeed certain, that impressions of dread may sometimes be unluckily made by objects not in themselves justly formidable; but when fear is discovered to be groundless, it is to be eradicated like other false opinions, and antipathies are generally superable by a single effort. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II] Reference
He was not, he said, deterred by the danger and difficulty which was evi - dently to be encountered, but he was deterred by the ignominy of desertion, to be followed by the hypo - crisy of enlisting with the enemy; neither of which comported with his feelings, and either placed an in - superable bar in his way to promotion. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the war in the Southern department of the United States] Reference
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