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Letter "F" » forsake
«Forsake not God till you find a better master.»
«English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin -- a language with which it has precious little in common. In Latin, to take one example, it is not possible to split an infinitive. So in English, the early authorities decided, it should not be possible to split an infinitive either. But there is no reason why we shouldn't, any more than we should forsake instant coffee and air travel because they weren't available to the Romans. Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football. It is a patent absurdity. But once this insane notion became established, grammarians found themselves having to draw up ever more complicated and circular arguments to accommodate the inconsistencies.»
Author: Bill Bryson
(Writer)
| Keywords:
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«Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain»
Author: John Calvin
(Statesman, Theologian)
| About:
Belief,
Mankind,
Men,
Mind,
Superstition
| Keywords:
forsake, idol, idolatries, idolatry
«Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable to him. A new friend is a new wine; when if is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure.»
Author: Bible
| About:
Friends,
Friendship
| Keywords:
comparable, comparable to, comparable with, forsake
«Do not let loyalty and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart»
Author: Bible
| About:
Fidelity,
Loyalty
| Keywords:
faithfulness, forsake, loyalty, neck, tablet, tablets, The Tablet
«Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting»
«For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way: because we had spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him; but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him.»
«More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple pity that will not forsake us»
«I believe that what so saddens the reformer is not his sympathy with his fellows in distress, but, though he be the holiest son of God, is his private ail. Let this be righted, let the spring come to him, the morning rise over his couch, and he will forsake his generous companions without apology.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
ail, apology, companions, couch, distress, forsake, holiest, reformer, righted, saddened, saddening, saddens, Son of, Son of God
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