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Letter "S" » saddening
«It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.»
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
(Writer)
| Keywords:
adjustment, expend, expended, expending, expends, invariably, saddened, saddening, saddens
«TEDIUM, n. Ennui, the state or condition of one that is bored. Many fanciful derivations of the word have been affirmed, but so high an authority as Father Jape says that it comes from a very obvious source --the first words of the ancient Latin hymn _Te Deum Laudamus_. In this apparently natural derivation there is something that saddens.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
Affirmed, apparently, derivation, derivations, ennui, fanciful, hymn, jape, Latin, natural state, saddened, saddening, saddens, tedium
«One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| About:
Sadness
| Keywords:
responsive, saddened, saddening, saddens
«I believe that what so saddens the reformer is not his sympathy with his fellows in distress, but, though he be the holiest son of God, is his private ail. Let this be righted, let the spring come to him, the morning rise over his couch, and he will forsake his generous companions without apology.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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ail, apology, companions, couch, distress, forsake, holiest, reformer, righted, saddened, saddening, saddens, Son of, Son of God
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