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Letter "R" » reverently
«Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.»
Author: Douglas MacArthur
(General)
| Keywords:
dictate, hallowed, hallows, reverently, word of honor
«You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.»
Author: John Updike
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clay, millions, old hand, reverently, thumbprint, thumbprints| Occasions:
Graduation
«I beseech those whose piety will permit them reverently to petition, that they will pray for this union, and ask that He who buildeth up and pulleth down nations will, the mercy preserve and unite us. For a Nation divided against itself cannot stand.»
Author: Sam Houston
(General, Lawyer, Politician)
| Keywords:
beseech, beseeching, divided, permit, petition, petitions, piety, reverently, The petition, unite
«ALLAH, n. The Mahometan Supreme Being, as distinguished from the Christian, Jewish, and so forth.Allah's good laws I faithfully have kept, And ever for the sins of man have wept; And sometimes kneeling in the temple I Have reverently crossed my hands and slept. --Junker Barlow»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
Barlow, faithfully, Junker, kneeling, reverently, Supreme Being, wept
«FOREORDINATION, n. This looks like an easy word to define, but when I consider that pious and learned theologians have spent long lives in explaining it, and written libraries to explain their explanations; when I remember the nations have been divided and bloody battles caused by the difference between foreordination and predestination, and that millions of treasure have been expended in the effort to prove and disprove its compatibility with freedom of the will and the efficacy of prayer, praise, and a religious life, --recalling these awful facts in the history of the word, I stand appalled before the mighty problem of its signification, abase my spiritual eyes, fearing to contemplate its portentous magnitude, reverently uncover and humbly refer it to His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons and His Grace Bishop Potter.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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abase, abased, abasing, appalled, compatibility, contemplate, disprove, disproved, disproving, eminence, expend, expended, expending, explaining, explanations, fearing, foreordination, freedom of the will, gibbon, History of the, humbly, Libraries, long-lived, pious, portentous, potter, predestination, recalling, refer, religious freedom, reverently, signification, theologian, theologians, The Mighty, uncover
«The will to truth! That will which is yet to seduce us into many a venture, that famous truthfulness of which all philosophers up to this time have spoken reverently -- think what questions this will to truth has posed for us! What strange, wicked, questionable question!»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
posed, questionable, reverently, seduce, truthfulness, venture
«Associate reverently, and as much as one can with our loftiest thoughts»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
associate, loftiest, reverently
«Painful for a person is rebellious independence, only in loving companionship with his associates does a person feel safe: Only in reverently bowing down before the higher does a person feel exalted.»
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