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«The awakenings of remorse, virtuous shame and indignation, the glow of moral approbation if they do not lead to action, grow less and less vivid every time they occur, till at length the mind grows absolutely callous»
Author: Anna Letitia Barbauld
| Keywords:
approbation, at length, awakenings, callous, glow, indignation, remorse, The Glow, vivid
«Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.»
«To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that the one that must be loved is not a friend. There is no merit in loving an enemy when you forget him for a friend.»
«The whole art of teaching is the only art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards; and curiosity itself can be vivid and wholesome only in proportion as the mind is contented and happy»
Author: Anatole France
(Writer)
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Teachers and teaching
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afterwards, awakening, awakenings, Awakening The, contented, curiosity, proportion, satisfying, teaching, The Natural, vivid, wholesome
«Philosophy offers the rather cold consolation that perhaps we and our planet do not actually exist; religion presents the contradictory and scarcely more comforting thought that we exist but that we cannot hope to get anywhere until we cease to exist. Alcohol, in attempting to resolve the contradiction, produces vivid patterns of Truth which vanish like snow in the morning sun and cannot be recalled; the revelations of poetry are as wonderful as a comet in the skies , and as mysterious. Love, which was once believed to contain the Answer, we now know to be nothing more than an inherited behavior pattern.»
Author: James Thurber
(Writer)
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attempting, cold comfort, comet, Comets, comforting, consolation, contradiction, contradictory, inherited, our planet, patterns, presents, Revelations, scarcely, skies, vanish, vivid
«Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell.»
«These images in vivid and violent tones have resulted from crystallization of memories of the circus, popular tales or travel.»
Author: Henri Matisse
(Artist, Painter)
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circus, crystallization, resulted, tales, The Circus, tones, vivid
«Wit and Humor -- if any difference, it is in duration -- lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can do damage -- the other fools along and enjoys elaboration.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
apparently, damage, duration, elaboration, electric, electric light, enjoys, lightning, vivid
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