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Letter "G" » Great A
«Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a damned blow over the face. His son, as rude as he was, would not strike his father, but strikes over the face the gentleman that sat next to him and said ''Box about: twill come to my father anon.''»
«Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences.»
Author: Katherine Whitehorn
| About:
Consequences
| Keywords:
Great A, liable, motives, preoccupation
«What is important to a relationship is a harmony of emotional roles and not too great a disparity in the general level of intelligence»
Author: Mira Komarovsky
| About:
Relationships
| Keywords:
disparity, emotional, general, Great A, harmony, intelligence, level, roles, The General
«The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Opinions,
Silence
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clearer, collision, collisions, deprived, deprived of, dissent, dissenting opinion, exchanging, existing, Great A, human error, Human perception, impression, livelier, peculiar, perception, posterity, produced, robbing, silencing
«Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul»
«There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.»
«Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us»
«Think how great a proportion of mankind, consists of weak and ignorant men and women, and of inexperienced youth of both sexes, who have need of the motives of religion to restrain them from vice, to support their virtue, and retain them in the pract»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Mankind,
Men and Women,
Religion
| Keywords:
Great A, sexes
«That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.»
«The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those most distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete skeptics in religion»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
World
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astonished, brightest, distinguished, estimation, estimations, Great A, ornaments, skeptics, The Skeptic
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