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«History is philosophy learned from examples»
«Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.»
«A book is one of the most patient of all man's inventions. Centuries mean nothing to a well-made book. It awaits its destined reader, come when he may, with eager hand and seeing eye. Then occurs one of the great examples of union, that of a man with»
Author: Lawrence Clark Powell
(Critic, Librarian, Writer)
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Books
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«Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.»
Author: Bertolt Brecht
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«Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.»
Author: Paul Klee
(Artist)
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artistic, corruption, examples, free of, furnish, helpless, instructive, preserved
«Great people give inspiration by their deeds. They lead by examples. Common people always emulate them. »
«Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.»
«COENOBITE, n. A man who piously shuts himself up to meditate upon the sin of wickedness; and to keep it fresh in his mind joins a brotherhood of awful examples.O Coenobite, O coenobite, Monastical gregarian, You differ from the anchorite, That solitudinarian: With vollied prayers you wound Old Nick; With dropping shots he makes him sick. --Quincy Giles»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.»
«I do and I must reverence human nature. I bless it for its kind affections. I honor it for its achievements in science and art, and still more for its examples of heroic and saintly virtue. These are marks of a divine origin and the pledges of a celestial inheritance; and I thank God that my own lot is bound up with that of the human race.»
Author: William Ellery Channing
(Author, Clergyman)
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bound up, celestial, examples, human origin, pledges, saintly
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