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wisdom art teach
Art can teach without at all ceasing to be art. C. S. Lewis
wisdom hands firsts
If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.
wisdom holy-places burning
If these holy places, things, and days cease to remind us, if they obliterate our awareness that all ground is holy and every bush (could we but perceive it) a Burning Bush, then the hallows begin to do harm. Hence both the necessity, and the perennial danger, of 'religion.'
wisdom thinking differences
In any fairly large and talkative community such as a university there is always the danger that those who think alike should gravitate together where they will henceforth encounter opposition only in the emasculated form of rumour that the outsiders say thus and thus. The absent are easily refuted, complacent dogmatism thrives, and differences of opinion are embittered by the group hostility. Each group hears not the best, but the worst, that the other group can say.
wisdom mistake imperfection
Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal.
wisdom heart love-is
Other than heaven, the only place where one's heart is completely safe from the dangers of love is hell.
wisdom absent
The absent are easily refuted.
wisdom gaps different
The gap between those who worship different gods is not so wide as the gap between those who worship and those who don't.
wisdom medicine disease
Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease?
despised fed monarch name owe whom
It is not the statesman, the warrior, or the monarch that survives, but the despised poet, whom they may have fed with their crumbs, and to whom they owe that they are now or have a name Nathaniel Hawthorne
despise dreamers evil filthy likewise speak
Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities. Bible Bible
despise larger supportive writ
I'm supportive of practical nationalism, like the kind we need in Canada to avoid being absorbed into a much larger country. The kind of nationalism I despise as destructive and infantile is really just tribalism writ large. Steven Heighton
despised hate learned until
No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
despise men naturally respect
Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them. Thucydides
despised involved people provincial stayed
When I was young, I despised old people. I was provincial and narrow-minded. It's the reason I stayed stupid so long. If you only get involved with young people you don't learn anything about the world. Edmund White
despised good half lives longer nearly people
The majority of people think their children's lives will not be as good as theirs. Nearly half of all Americans are no longer proud of their country. Politicians have become a despised breed. Kathleen Troia McFarland
despise things-to-do courses
Of course I despise money when I haven't got any. It's the only dignified thing to do. Agatha Christie
despise leading opportunity
To despise no opportunity of usefulness is a leading rule with those who are wise to win souls. Charles Spurgeon
turns
I thought I wanted a career, turns out I just wanted paychecks.
turns indication ifs
If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false. Dean Kamen
turns humans
God turns toward the very places from which humans turn away.... Dietrich Bonhoeffer
turns magnificent
It turns out that there is something more magnificent than nature. It's love. Ben Harper
turns
You go through these little phases and fads, and it never turns out the way you think it's going to turn out.
turns
We used to be an embarrassment. Now it turns out we're quaint.
turns
We thought it was just aesthetic. Not load-bearing. Turns out that was not to be the case.
turns wait watch
But now I'm kind of like, 'Gee, I can't wait to watch it to see how it turns out.' Lester Holt
turns
My brain never turns off of songwriting. Every conversation, everything I see, I'm just kind of like a sponge and I soak it up. Dustin Lynch