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«It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Generations,
Love
| Keywords:
affinity, companionship, courtship, created, generations, In a, in a moment, long, moment, offspring, persevered, perseveres, persevering, spiritual, spiritual being, The Offspring, wrong, years
«Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.»
Author: Teilhard de Chardin
(Geologist, Mystic, Philosopher, Priest)
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
affinity, agent, draws, elements, links, synthesis, The Agent, The Elements
«The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public»
«Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.»
«Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold»
«And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such deliverance as this; / Should we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity with the people of these abominations? wouldest not thou be angry with us till thou hadst consumed us, so that there should be no remnant nor escaping? / O LORD God of Israel, thou art righteous: for we remain yet escaped, as it is this day: behold, we are before thee in our trespasses: for we cannot stand before thee because of this.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
abominations, affinity, Commandments, consumed, deliverance, escaped, join us, punished, remnants, trespasses
«Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honour in abundance, and joined affinity with Ahab.»
«And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of the LORD, and the wall of Jerusalem round about.»
«The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent / for every effect a perfect cause / and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
affinity, cent, common cause, merchant, Old Road, One Pound, sense of purpose
«Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity.»
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