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Letter "I" » insensibility
«Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.»
«Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
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Suffering
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A Beautiful Mind, bears, bear in mind, calamities, cheerfulness, insensibility
«DULLARD, n. A member of the reigning dynasty in letters and life. The Dullards came in with Adam, and being both numerous and sturdy have overrun the habitable world. The secret of their power is their insensibility to blows; tickle them with a bludgeon and they laugh with a platitude. The Dullards came originally from Boeotia, whence they were driven by stress of starvation, their dullness having blighted the crops. For some centuries they infested Philistia, and many of them are called Philistines to this day. In the turbulent times of the Crusades they withdrew thence and gradually overspread all Europe, occupying most of the high places in politics, art, literature, science and theology. Since a detachment of Dullards came over with the Pilgrims in the _Mayflower_ and made a favorable report of the country, their increase by birth, immigration, and conversion has been rapid and steady. According to the most trustworthy statistics the number of adult Dullards in the United States is but little short of thirty millions, including the statisticians. The intellectual centre of the race is somewhere about Peoria, Illinois, but the New England Dullard is the most shockingly moral.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«The sensibility of man to trifles, and his insensibility to great things, indicates a strange inversion.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
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indicated, indicates, insensibility, inversion, sensibilities, sensibility, trifled, trifles
«We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate being was spread between him and its darkness, in which were joined in a subdued measure, the stability and insensibility of the earth, and the passion and perishing of mankind.»
Author: John Ruskin
(Critic, Writer)
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as it were, habitation, insensibility, intermediate, perishing, stability, subdued, The Passion, veil
«Boswell: That, Sir, was great fortitude of mind. Johnson: No, Sir, stark insensibility.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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Boswell, fortitude, insensibility, stark, starkest
«What a deal of grief, care, and other harmful excitement does a healthy dullness and insensibility avoid!»
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