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The Quickening
«Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.»
Author: A. E. Housman
(Poet, Scholar)
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Literature
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blunt, blunted, blunting, blunts, discrimination, mellow, mellows, perception, Personal Best, quicken, quickening, quickens, reader, sharpen, The Quickening
«Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.»
Author: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Responsibility
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quickening, quickens, strengthens, The Quickening
«Absence in love is like water on fire, a little quickens, but much extinguishes»
Author: Hannah Moore
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Absence,
Love
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extinguishes, Fire and Water, on fire, quickening, quickens, The Quickening
«Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.»
Author: James Russell Lowell
(Critic, Diplomat, Editor, Essayist, Poet)
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Books
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bees, pollen, quickening, quickens, The Quickening
«There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.»
Author: Martha Graham
(Choreographer, Dancer, Teacher)
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block, life force, medium, quickening, quickens, The Quickening, translated, unique, vitality
«There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.»
Author: Martha Graham
(Choreographer, Dancer, Teacher)
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Vitality
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all-time, life force, quickening, quickens, The Quickening, translated, vitality
«I never work better than when I am inspired by anger; for when I am angry, I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understandingsharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart.»
Author: Martin Luther
(Priest, Scholar)
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angry, depart, inspired, mundane, pray, preach, quickened, quickening, quickens, temperament, temperaments, temptations, The Quickening, vexations
«The great end in religious instruction, is not to stamp our minds upon the young, but to stir up their own; not to make them see with our eyes, but to look inquiringly and steadily with their own; not to give them a definite amount of knowledge, but to inspire a fervent love of truth; not to form an outward regularity, but to touch inward springs; not to bind them by ineradicable prejudices to our particular sect or peculiar notions, but to prepare them for impartial, conscientious judging of whatever subjects may be offered to their decision; not to burden memory, but to quicken and strengthen the power of thought.»
Author: William Ellery Channing
(Author, Clergyman)
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«Hope warps judgment in council, but quickens energy in action»
Author: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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council, council of, quickening, quickens, The Quickening, warped, warping, warps
«The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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detection, disturb, dread, fallacies, operations, quickened, quickening, quickens, The Quickening, vigorous