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«I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought.»
Author: Alexander Herzen
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feebleness, horrified, horrify, horrifying, modern man, narrowness, outlook
«Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's children.»
Author: Phillips Brooks
(Clergyman)
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As god, narrowness, petty, privilege, realization, self confidence
«Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves.They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.»
Author: V. S. Naipaul
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Limits,
Vision
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carve, carves, confined, fewer, limit, narrowness, niche, niches, possibilities
«There seems no reason why patriotism and narrowness should go together, or why intellectual fairmindedness should be confounded with political trimming, or why serviceable truth should keep cloistered because not partisan»
Author: Herman Melville
(Novelist, Poet, Writer)
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cloister, cloistered, confounded, confounding, confounds, fair-mindedness, fairmindedness, go together, narrowness, partisan, partisans, patriotism, serviceable, trimmed, trimming, trimmings, trims
«Is there something in trade that desiccates and flattens out, that turns men into dried leaves at the age of forty? Certainly there is. It is not due to trade but to intensity of self-seeking, combined with narrowness of occupation. Business has destroyed the very knowledge in us of all other natural forces except business.»
Author: John Jay Chapman
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combined, desiccated, desiccates, dried, flatten, flattened, flattening, flattens, intensity, narrowness, not due, occupation, self-seeking
«For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will»
Author: Henri Frederic Amiel
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narrowness
«As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.»
«The pious sectarian is proud because he is confident of his right of possession in God. The man of devotion is meek because he is conscious of God?s right of love over his life and soul. The object of our possession becomes smaller than ourselves, and without acknowledging it in so many words the bigoted sectarian has an implicit belief that God can be kept secured for certain individuals in a cage which is of their own make. In a similar manner the primitive races of men believe that their ceremonials have a magic influence upon their deities. Sectarianism is a perverse form of worldliness in the disguise of religion; it breeds a narrowness of heart in a greater measure than the cult of the world based upon material interest can ever do. For undisguised pursuit of self has its safety in openness, like filth exposed to the sun and air. But the self-magnification with its consequent lessening of God that goes on unchecked under the cover of sectarianism loses its chance of salvation because it defiles the very source of purity.»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
God
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«The Veda is bent upon the task of making him know this Truth, and liberating him from this narrowness.»
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