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«Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept on the stretch.»
«Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.»
«Jesus of Nazareth could have chosen simply to express Himself in moral precepts; but like a great poet He chose the form of the parable, wonderful short stories that entertained and clothed the moral precept in an eternal form. It is not sufficient to catch man's mind, you must also catch the imaginative faculties of his mind.»
Author: Dudley Nichols
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chose, clothed, entertained, faculties, imaginative, Jesus of Nazareth, parable, precept, Precepts, short stories, short story, The short story
«The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.»
«Standing armies can never consist of resolute robust men; they may be well-disciplined machines, but they will seldom contain men under the influence of strong passions, or with very vigorous faculties.»
«Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, the first that dies»
«It took me twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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aided, faculties, studied, the British
«Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment for man's nobler faculties»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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Living
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abhorring, abhors, continuous, employment, engaged, faculties, nobler, vacuum
«My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
derangement, faculties, species, volition
«Man is an individual animal with narrow faculties, but infinite desires, which he is anxious to concentrate in some one object within the grasp of his imagination, and where, if he cannot be all that he wishes himself, he may at least contemplate his own pride, vanity, and passions, displayed in their most extravagant dimensions in a being no bigger and no better than himself.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| Keywords:
anxious, concentrate, contemplate, dimensions, displayed, extravagant, faculties, narrow
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