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«Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's faculties. Error is the contradiction of Truth. Error is a belief without understanding. Error is unreal because untrue. It is that which stemma to be and is not. If error were true, its truth would be error, and we should have a self-evident absurdity /namely, erroneous truth. Thus we should continue to lose the standard of Truth.»
Author: Mary Baker Eddy
(Founder)
| Keywords:
absurdity, contradiction, erroneous, erroneous belief, evident, existent, faculties, namely, Pleasure and Pain, self evident, standard, substance, supposition, The Standard, unreal, untrue
«Creative power, is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic and as yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form.»
Author: Thomas Troward
| About:
Power
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as yet, desired, expectancy, flow, mold, plastic, receptive, substance, undifferentiated
«Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow»
«All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
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Law and lawyers
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declaratory, original, properly, properly speaking, speaking, substance
«Be not deceived with the first appearance of things, for show is not substance.»
«Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, are merely shadows cast by outward things on stone or canvas, having in themselves no separate existence. Architecture, existing in itself, and not in seeming a something it is not, surpasses them as substance shadow.»
«Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| About:
Friendship
| Keywords:
bury, carcass, carcasses, embalm, embalming, embalms, keep on, mockery, substance, substances
«A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
| Keywords:
formed, reside, resided, resides, residing, substance, The Shadow
«Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows»
«Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, brags of his substance: they are but beggars who can count their worth.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
beggars, brags, conceit, rich in, substance
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