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«Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.»
Author: Shirley Hazzard
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calamity, discount, discounting, drama, Grown up, humbly, imagining, prestigious
«Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing»
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
(Biologist)
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abysses, humbly, notion, preconceived, preconceived notion, sit down
«Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist of creating out of void, but out of chaos»
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(Novelist)
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Inventions
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admitted, consist, humbly, void
«And what does the lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God (Micah 6:8).»
«RESIGN, v.t. To renounce an honor for an advantage. To renounce an advantage for a greater advantage.'Twas rumored Leonard Wood had signed A true renunciation Of title, rank and every kind Of military station -- Each honorable station.By his example fired --inclined To noble emulation, The country humbly was resigned To Leonard's resignation -- His Christian resignation. --Politian Greame»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«FOREORDINATION, n. This looks like an easy word to define, but when I consider that pious and learned theologians have spent long lives in explaining it, and written libraries to explain their explanations; when I remember the nations have been divided and bloody battles caused by the difference between foreordination and predestination, and that millions of treasure have been expended in the effort to prove and disprove its compatibility with freedom of the will and the efficacy of prayer, praise, and a religious life, --recalling these awful facts in the history of the word, I stand appalled before the mighty problem of its signification, abase my spiritual eyes, fearing to contemplate its portentous magnitude, reverently uncover and humbly refer it to His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons and His Grace Bishop Potter.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
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chastely, chastity, humbly, humility, skeptically, skepticism
«A mature person is one who is does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably»
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
(Diplomat, First Lady, Humanitarian)
| About:
Maturity
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