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«A man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them. They like a man who expresses their own superficial thoughts in a manner that appears to be profound. This enables them to feel that they are themselves profound.»
Author: Van Wyck Brooks
(Biographer, Critic, Historian)
| Keywords:
instructed, orphic, platitudes, pronounce, superficial
«Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.»
Author: Epictetus
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careful, hopes, ignorant, instructed, instructing, instructs, rich, sons, Son o, wealth| Occasions:
Graduation
«A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people»
«And she, being before instructed of her mother, said, Give me here John Baptist's head in a charger.»
«Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.»
«Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
instructed
«Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God, / And knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law; / And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness, / An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.»
«And Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, was for song: he instructed about the song, because he was skilful.»
Author: Bible
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instructed
«And Jehoash did that which was right in the sight of the LORD all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him.»
«At Mr Wackford Squeers's Academy, Dotheboys Hall . . . Youth are boarded, clothed, booked, furnished with pocket-money, provided with all necessaries, instructed in all languages living and dead.»
Author: Charles Dickens
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boarded, booked, Dead language, furnished, furnished with, hall, instructed, necessaries, pocket money, The academy
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