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Letter "H" » hardness
«Justice must be blind to the hardness or softness of a man's hands, as well as to the leanness or fatness of his pocketbook»
Author: B. C. Forbes
(Editor, Founder)
| About:
Justice
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fatness, hardness, leanness, pocketbook, softness
«The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.»
Author: Andre Breton
(Critic, Editor, Founder, Poet)
| Keywords:
crystal, devoid, devoid of, facet, facets, fragment, hardness, Interior, luster, of value, regularities, regularity, rigidity, the Crystal, work of art
«Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.»
Author: Charles de Gaulle
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Action
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cunning, cunning man, dose, doses, dosing, egoism, hardness, high quality, regarded
«And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he saith unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it out: and his hand was restored whole as the other.»
«Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? / Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons? / Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth? / Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee? / Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go and say unto thee, Here we are? / Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the heart? / Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven, / When the dust groweth into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together? / Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions, / When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait? / Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat.»
Author: Bible
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abide, Arcturus, bands, bind, bottles, bring forth, cleave, cleaved, cleaving, cleft, clods, couch, covert, coverts, dens, dominion, dust cloud, fast food, hardness, hunt, hunting season, influences, lie in wait, lift up, lions, number the, ordinances, Orion, Pleiades, prey, raven, ravens, stay put, stay together, the Dominion, The Raven, The Ravens, The Sweet, The Young Lions, wander, wilt
«And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God? / Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance? / But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God; / Who will render to every man according to his deeds: / To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life: / But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, / Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile; / But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile: / For there is no respect of persons with God.»
Author: Bible
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anguish, contentious, continuance, continuances, Day of Wrath, eternal life, forbearance, Gentile, hardness, honour, Immortality of the Soul, impenitent, indignation, Jew, long-suffering, longsuffering, render, repentance, revelation, Revelation of, righteous, The First Evil, tribulation, tribulations, unrighteousness, wrath
«One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst of nothing but hard truths.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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acquired, cheerful, good spirit, habit, hard, hardness, in good spirits, in the midst, midst, must have, oneself, spared, sparing, spirits, truths
«There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head»
«Peace and plenty breed cowards; hardness over hardiness is the mother»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
breed, cowards, hardiness, hardness
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