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«The oldest of the arts and the youngest of the professions.»
«The conditions you need to be a good goalkeeper are exactly the same conditions you need to be a good sculptor. You must have a very good connection, in both professions, with time and space.»
«The Christian ministry is the worst of all trades, but the best of all professions»
Author: John Newton
| About:
Christianity
| Keywords:
best of all, ministries, ministry, Ministry of, professions, The Christian, trades
«Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.»
Author: John Morley
(Biographer, Journalist, Statesman)
| Keywords:
deceiving, professions, seductive
«The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.»
Author: Lawrence G. Lovasik
(Priest)
| Keywords:
activity, bearing, bearings, burdens, defects, elementary, overlooking, overlooks, professions, social, social activity, The Family, The Practice
«The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.»
Author: William Bolitho
| Keywords:
confessed, distracting, in all likelihood, likelihood, practically, professions, pursuits
«The Christian religion, then, is not an affair of preaching, or prating, or ranting, but of taking care of the bodies as well as the souls of people; not an affair of belief and of faith and of professions, but an affair of doing good, and especially to those who are in want; not an affair of fire and brimstone, but an affair of bacon and read, beer and a bed.»
Author: William Cobbett
| About:
Christianity,
Religion
| Keywords:
affair, bacon, brimstone, Christian faith, Christian religion, fire and brimstone, prate, prating, preaching, professions, rant, ranting
«Man made one grave mistake: in answer to vaguely reformist and humanitarian agitation he admitted women to politics and the professions. The conservatives who saw this as the undermining of our civilization and the end of the state and marriage were right after all; it is time for the demolition to begin.»
Author: Germaine Greer
| Keywords:
admitted, agitation, conservatives, demolition, humanitarian, professions, reformist, undermining, vaguely
«The world judge of men by their ability in their professions, and we judge of ourselves by the same test; for it is on that on which our success in life depends»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| About:
Judgement,
Profession and professionals,
World
| Keywords:
on that, professions
«We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being better than we are; and yet it is not denied that we have some good intentions and praiseworthy qualities at bottom»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| Keywords:
artifice, artifices, at bottom, disguise, praiseworthy, professions
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