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Letter "I" » inordinate
«Attachment to spiritual things is.. just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.»
«It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to it all»
Author: Heinrich Heine
(Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
addition, additions, enjoying, inordinate, in addition, presumption, presumptions
«And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms.»
«Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: / For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience: / In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
concupiscence, covetousness, fornication, idolatries, idolatry, inordinate, mortified, mortifies, mortify, mortifying, uncleanness, wrath
«An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Age,
Pleasure,
Youth
| Keywords:
inordinate, remaining
«Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind.»
Author: Robertson Davies
(Author, Journalist)
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accordion, compassed, contract, decreasing, disposing, gaseous, inordinate, suggests, warmly
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