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confounding
«The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.»
Author: Maria Montessori
(Educator, Physician)
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«Reason has moons, but moons not hers / Lie mirror'd on her sea, / Confounding her astronomers, / But, O! delighting me.»
«There seems no reason why patriotism and narrowness should go together, or why intellectual fairmindedness should be confounded with political trimming, or why serviceable truth should keep cloistered because not partisan»
Author: Herman Melville
(Novelist, Poet, Writer)
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«There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.»
Author: Homer
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Enemies,
Friends
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«As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.»
Author: Leonardo da Vinci
(Architect, Engineer, Painter, Sculptor)
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«Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time: effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.»
«A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
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«A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.»
«Laws are best explained, interpreted and applied by those whose interest and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding them»
Author: Jonathan Swift
(Author, Satirist)
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Law and lawyers
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«I to the world am like a drop of waterThat in the ocean seeks another drop,Who, falling there to find his fellow forth,Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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