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Letter "D" » devout
«Conviction brings a silent, indefinable beauty into faces made of the commonest human clay; the devout worshiper at any shrine reflects something of its golden glow, even as the glory of a noble love shines like a sort of light from a woman's face»
Author: Honore de Balzac
(Novelist)
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Conviction
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clay, commonest, devout, even as, glow, golden glow, indefinable, reflects, shrine, worshiper, worshipers
«No one but yourself knows whether you are cowardly and cruel, or loyal and devout; others do not see you; they surmise you by uncertain conjectures; they perceive not so much your nature as your art»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
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conjecture, conjectures, cowardly, cruel, devout, loyal, perceive, surmise, surmises, uncertain
«Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.»
«Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with him.»
«Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.»
Author: Anatole France
(Writer)
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believers, constructing, devout, illnesses, safeguarded, spares, The Task
«People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.»
«Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train.»
«Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.»
«I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new. Shall i not call God The beautiful, who daily showth himself so to me in his gifts.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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awoke, devout, New Gods, thanksgiving, This Morning
«Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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devout, neutralize, neutralized, neutralizes, neutralizing, religiousness, scientific fact
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