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«Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.»
«Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.»
«Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house: / Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel: / Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger; / And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed, / And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof; / And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me! / I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.»
«ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude --a privation appealing with a particular eloquence to all that is sympathetic in human nature. When young the orphan is commonly sent to an asylum, where by careful cultivation of its rudimentary sense of locality it is taught to know its place. It is then instructed in the arts of dependence and servitude and eventually turned loose to prey upon the world as a bootblack or scullery maid.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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bootblack, cultivation, deprived, deprived of, eloquence, filial, instructed, privation, privations, rudimentary, scullery
«So the number of them, with their brethren that were instructed in the songs of the LORD, even all that were cunning, was two hundred fourscore and eight.»
«Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, / If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking? / Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands.»
«Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relation of the least-instructed human beings...»
«Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans -which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambezi.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
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hedgerow, hedgerows, instructed, linger, nourished, palms, The Theatre, tropics, vagrancy, Zambezi
«One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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inspired, instructed, instructing, instructs, society, solitude
«Oh, be wiser thou!Instructed that true knowledge leads to love.»
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