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Letter "A" » Affirmed
«It is not necessary to deny another's reality in order to affirm your own.»
«I like the gardens with good bones and affirmed underlying structure.. well-marked paths, well-built walls, well-defined changes in level.»
«On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
(Judge, Jurist)
| Keywords:
Affirmed, affirming, affirms, deny, on the side, on the whole, saints, The Saints, unregenerate
«And about the space of one hour after another confidently affirmed, saying, Of a truth this fellow also was with him: for he is a Galilaean.»
«And they said unto her, Thou art mad. But she constantly affirmed that it was even so. Then said they, It is his angel.»
«Against whom when the accusers stood up, they brought none accusation of such things as I supposed: / But had certain questions against him of their own superstition, and of one Jesus, which was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.»
«TEDIUM, n. Ennui, the state or condition of one that is bored. Many fanciful derivations of the word have been affirmed, but so high an authority as Father Jape says that it comes from a very obvious source --the first words of the ancient Latin hymn _Te Deum Laudamus_. In this apparently natural derivation there is something that saddens.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
Affirmed, apparently, derivation, derivations, ennui, fanciful, hymn, jape, Latin, natural state, saddened, saddening, saddens, tedium
«PREDESTINATION, n. The doctrine that all things occur according to programme. This doctrine should not be confused with that of foreordination, which means that all things are programmed, but does not affirm their occurrence, that being only an implication from other doctrines by which this is entailed. The difference is great enough to have deluged Christendom with ink, to say nothing of the gore. With the distinction of the two doctrines kept well in mind, and a reverent belief in both, one may hope to escape perdition if spared.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
affirm, Affirmed, affirming, Christendom, confused, deluge, deluges, distinction, doctrine, doctrines, entail, entailed, entailing, foreordination, gore, gored, gores, implication, ink, occur, occurrence, occurrences, perdition, predestination, programme, programmed, reverent, spared, The Deluge, with that
«ACCUSE, v.t. To affirm another's guilt or unworth; most commonly as a justification of ourselves for having wronged him.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
accuse, accuses, accusing, affirm, Affirmed, affirming, commonly, guilt, justification, T, The Accused, wronged
«Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live unreflectively and begins to devote himself to his life with reverence in order to raise it to its true value. To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the wil»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
affirm, affirmation, affirmations, Affirmed, affirming, ceases, deepen, deepening, deepens, devote, exalt, exalting, exalts, inward, raise, reverence, reverenced, reverences, The Spiritual, True Value
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