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Letter "D" » divining
«Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and the of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.»
Author: Chanakya
(Politician, strategist, Writer)
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desires, divined, divines, divining, senses
«The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.»
Author: Claude Levi-Strauss
(Philosopher)
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«To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.»
Author: Jorge Luis Borges
(Essayist, Poet)
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Immortality
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commonplaces, creatures, divined, divines, divining, immortals
«And her prophets have daubed them with untempered morter, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken.»
«RHADOMANCER, n. One who uses a divining-rod in prospecting for precious metals in the pocket of a fool.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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divining, divining rod, metals, precious metal, precious metals, prospecting
«I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had acquired it in the midst of frivolous amusements, in idleness, in tenderness and in pain, stored up by me without my divining its destination or even its survival, as the seed has in reserve all the ingredients which will nourish the plant.»
Author: Marcel Proust
(Author, Novelist)
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amusements, by me, divining, frivolous, ingredients, literary, literary work, nourish, past life, reserve, stored up, tenderness, The Plant
«A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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«I am you; you are ME.? You are the waves; I am the ocean.? Know this and be free, be divine.»
«It is only when you have both divine grace and human endeavor that you can experience bliss, just as you can enjoy the breeze of a fan only when you have both a fan and the electrical energy to operate it.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
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«Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.»
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