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«Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage. That is all true. But it is only fair, too, to let them know that the garments of the deity are filthy and that some of her influences debase and befoul a people.»
Author: Rebecca Harding Davis
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«I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.»
Author: Charles Darwin
(Author, Naturalist)
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Belief,
God
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beneficent, caterpillars, designedly, feeding, intention, omnipotent, parasitic, persuade, The Express, wasp, wasps
«Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.»
«With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Agriculture
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beneficent, entered, enter upon, freed, introduction, meanness, operation, The Machine
«Several incidents in my life have convinced me of spiritual interposition - of the promptings of some beneficent force outside ourselves, which tries to help us where it can»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
| Keywords:
beneficent, convinced, incident, incidents, interposition, several, The Incident, tries
«Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
| About:
Habit
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beneficent, calmly, enables, harness, harnessed, harnesses, harnessing, respectfully, routine, silly
«Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends. She has brought me here and will also lead me away. She may scold me, but she will not hate her work. I trust her.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Nature
| Keywords:
beneficent, brought, cunning, for good, praise, scold, scolded, scolding, works
«We must annex those people. We can afflict them with our wise and beneficent government. We can introduce the novelty of thieves, all the way up from street-car pickpockets to municipal robbers and Government defaulters, and show them how amusing it is to arrest them and try them and then turn them loose -- some for cash and some for ''political influence.'' We can make them ashamed of their simple and primitive justice. We can make that little bunch of sleepy islands the hottest corner on earth, and array it in the moral splendor of our high and holy civilization. Annexation is what the poor islanders need. ''Shall we to men benighted, the lamp of life deny?''»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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«(Twain on Cain): it was his misfortune to live in a dark age that knew not the beneficent Insanity Plea»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
beneficent, Cain, dark ages, insanity plea, plea, twain
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