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«The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.»
Author: Madame de Stael
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«The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.»
«What a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is an index into his desires -- desires of which he himself is often unconscious. If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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«We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgment.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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Power
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affords, blame, exhibited, exhibiting, exhibits, judgment, praise
«That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own self-esteem»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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Self-esteem
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affords, esteem, gaining, self esteem
«To wipe all tears from off all faces is a task too hard for mortals; but to alleviate misfortunes is often within the most limited power: yet the opportunities which every day affords of relieving the most wretched of human beings are overlooked and»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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Misfortune
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affords, alleviated, alleviates, relieving, wipe, wipe off
«There is a luxury in self-dispraise;And inward self-disparagement affordsTo meditative spleen a grateful feast.»
Author: William Wordsworth
(Poet)
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affords, disparagement, dispraise, dispraised, meditative, spleen
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