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«Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love.»
Author: Reinhold Niebuhr
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accomplished, complete, completed, context, Hope and Faith, however, immediate, In Context, lifetime, saved, therefore, virtuous
«Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.»
«Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.»
«If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.»
«God knows people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp following eunuchs of literature. They won't even whore. They're all virtuous and sterile. And how well meaning and high minded. But they're all camp followers.»
Author: Ernest Hemingway
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Criticism,
Literature
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attitudes, camp, camped, camping, camp follower, critics, eunuchs, followers, following, high-minded, minded, professional, sterile, virtuous, well-meaning, whore
«I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood, however virtuous in intent, can be anything but vicious»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
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Discovery of, falsehood, intent, trivial, trumpeting, vicious, virtuous, wholly
«Many wish not so much to be virtuous, as to seem to be»
«Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.»
Author: Maya Angelou
(Poet)
| About:
Opportunity
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Girls, otherwise, plain, scarcities, scarcity, virtuous
«Levity of behavior is the bone of all that is good and virtuous»
«One woman is fair, yet I am well; another is wise, yet I am well; another virtuous, yet I am well; but till all graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
come in, one-woman, the Graces, virtuous
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