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Letter "F" » fortifying
«The value of history is, indeed, not scientific but moral: by liberalizing the mind, by deepening the sympathies, by fortifying the will, it enables us to control, not society, but ourselves - a much more important thing; it prepares us to live more»
Author: Carl Becker
| About:
History,
Mind,
Value
| Keywords:
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«Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.»
Author: Hermann Hesse
(Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Knowledge,
Teachers and teaching,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
communicate, communicated, fortified, fortifies, fortifying, wonders
«Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.»
«Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.»
Author: Sydney Smith
(Clergyman, Essayist, Wit)
| About:
Friendship,
Life
| Keywords:
existence, fortified, fortifies, fortifying, friendships
«Anglo-American culture seems to be governed by the perverse belief that portrayals of the body's abuse or destruction are harmless, even fortifying, while those that show the body in pleasure act like poison»
Author: Walter Kendrick
| About:
America and Americans,
Culture
| Keywords:
American culture, Anglo-American, Anglo, fortifying, harmless, perverse, portrayal, portrayals
«A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.»
Author: William Arthur Ward
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«True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence.»
Author: Henri Frederic Amiel
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
ennoble, ennobled, ennobles, ennobling, fortified, fortifies, fortifying, personality, sanctifies, sanctifying, True Love
«The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions.»
Author: Sydney Smith
(Clergyman, Essayist, Wit)
| Keywords:
feebleness, fortified, fortifies, fortify, fortifying, preaching, remind, resolutions, supply, The Object of
«Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
enabling, fortified, fortifies, fortifying, human soul, more or less, myth, proposes, the help
«A man may by custom fortify himself against pain, shame, and suchlike accidents; but as to death, we can experience it but once, and are all apprentices when we come to it»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
accidents, apprentice, apprentices, fortified, fortifies, fortify, fortifying, suchlike
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