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«When I gave food to the poor, they called me a saint. When I asked why the poor were hungry, they called me a communist.»
«The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives.»
«The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.»
Author: James Fenton
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Lullabies, lullaby, ogre, saint, spell, The Mother, transform, whereby
«Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream»
«When human beings have been fascinated by the contemplation of their own hearts, the more intricate biological pattern of the female has become a model for the artist, the mystic, and the saint. When mankind turns instead to what can be done, altered, built, invented, in the outer world, all natural properties of men, animals, or metals become handicaps to be altered rather than clues to be followed.»
Author: Margaret Mead
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altered, Animal World, biological, clues, clue in, contemplation, fascinated, female, followed, handicaps, intricate, invented, metals, model, mystic, mystics, natural world, of their own, outer, pattern, properties, saint, The Saint
«The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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All Saints, between, difference, future, has a, past, saint, sinner, The Saint
«To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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All days, friendly, holy day, holy man, profitable, saint, The Philosopher, The Saint
«The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
cast away, consumed, esteemed, grosser, pit, reform, saint, The Discovery, The Saint, the Terror