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«Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.»
Author: Jane Porter
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bosoms, brightness, converge, converged, converges, converging, kindred, nay, particle, pass through, perfected, ray, redouble, redoubled, redoubling, reflects, strikes, sunbeam
«Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.»
Author: Paul Tillich
(Philosopher, Theologian)
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Faith,
God
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earnestly, name of God, reflects, symbolical, The Meaning of Life, verge, verges, vitally
«Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.»
Author: Potter Stewart
(Judge)
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Censorship,
Confidence
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authoritarian, censorship, hallmark, reflects, regime
«Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.»
«In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom; but he who reflects not, never reaps; has no harvest from it, but carries the burden of age without the wages of experience; nor knows himself old, but from his infirmities, the parish register, and the contempt of mankind. And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing.»
Author: Edward Young
(Critic, Dramatist, Poet)
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harvest, infirmities, of age, parish, reaps, reflects, register, registered, registering, registers, sown, The Register, The Wages of, wages
«Conviction brings a silent, indefinable beauty into faces made of the commonest human clay; the devout worshiper at any shrine reflects something of its golden glow, even as the glory of a noble love shines like a sort of light from a woman's face»
Author: Honore de Balzac
(Novelist)
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Conviction
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clay, commonest, devout, even as, glow, golden glow, indefinable, reflects, shrine, worshiper, worshipers
«Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
Byron, Lord Byron, reflects
«He who reflects on another man's want of breeding, shows he wants it as much himself»
«One who reflects upon his allotted span of life, becomes the slave of God.»
«I wonder how anyone can have the face to condemn others when he reflects upon his own thoughts»
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