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«Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.»
Author: Johann Gottfried Von Herder
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet, Theologian)
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for the most part, selves
«When sin lets us alone we may let sin alone; but as sin is never less quiet than when it seems to be most quiet, and its waters are for the most part deep when they are still, so ought our contrivances against it to be vigorous at all times and in al»
Author: John Owen
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contrivance, contrivances, deep water, for the most part, vigorous, waters
«The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.»
Author: Max Lerner
(Columnist, Politician)
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for the most part, rationalization, rationalizations, The So, The Victors, victors
«The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.»
Author: Michelangelo
| About:
Goals
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confide, confided, confides, confiding, for the most part, phantoms, promises, safest, The Phantom, The Phantom of
«What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.»
Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
(Ambassador, Governor, Politician)
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fifty, for the most part, twenty
«The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything»
Author: Clarence Darrow
(Lawyer, Speaker, Writer)
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World
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doubting, for the most part, made-up, morons, tyrants
«Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
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concerted, disorganized, distracted, for the most part, frustrated, impress, inefficacious, instance, in advance, in the main, monuments, organized society, raise up, sadly, so as to, subsequent, theoretic, The Practice
«What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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contemporary, fictitious, for the most part, obsolete, Real part, substitution, The Contemporary
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