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«The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature and Humanity, rejoices in its measureless superiority to human passions and human sorrows»
Author: Bernard Berenson
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Art,
Passion
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«I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.»
Author: Galileo Galilei
(Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Belief,
God,
Intelligence,
Reason,
Senses
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endowed, endowing, endows, forgo, forgoes, forgoing, intellect, intended, obliged, obliges, obliging, well endowed
«No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.»
Author: Gerald W. Johnston
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at the same time, endowed, endowing, endows, saddled, saddles, saddling, well endowed
«God gave me my money. I believe the power to make money is a gift from God . to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind. Having been endowed with the gift I possess, I believe it is my duty to make money and still more money and to use the money I make for the good of my fellow man according to the dictates of my conscience.»
Author: John D. Rockefeller
(Industrialist, Philanthropist)
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according, conscience, conscience money, developed, dictates, dictating, endowed, endowing, endows, fellow, gave, make for, mankind, possess, The Gift, used to, well endowed
«RESTITUTIONS, n. The founding or endowing of universities and public libraries by gift or bequest.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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bequest, bequests, endowing, founding, Libraries, public libraries, public library, the founding, universities
«A single son endowed with good qualities is far better than a hundred devoid of them.»
«I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.»
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
(Diplomat, First Lady, Humanitarian)
| About:
Gifts
| Keywords:
birth, curiosity, endow, endowing, endows, fairy, godmother, useful, well endowed
«In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality. The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
endowing, ephemeral, unimaginable, unreflective
«. . . for the stress of circumstances, Fred felt, was sharpening his acuteness and endowing him with all the constructive power of suspicion.»
«Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principals which direct them.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
| Keywords:
Acts, ambition, depends, direct, endowed, endowing, endows, passion, perform, principals, The Passion, well endowed, with ambition
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