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«Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.»
«From its brilliancy everything is illuminated.»
«As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.»
«Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.»
Author: Henri Matisse
(Artist, Painter)
| Keywords:
derive, fog, fogs, good day, illuminate, illuminating, surrounds, The Fog
«London was beginning to illuminate herself against the night. Electric lights sizzled and jagged in the main thoroughfares, gas-lamps in the side streets glimmered a canary gold or green.»
Author: E. M. Forster
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
canary, electric light, gas lamp, glimmer, glimmering, Glimmers, green light, illuminate, in the main, jagged, lamps, sizzle, sizzled, sizzles, thoroughfare, thoroughfares
«Altered opinions do not alter a man's character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate individual aspects of the constellation of his personality which with a different constellation of opinions had hitherto remained dark and unrecognizable.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
alter, altered, aspects, constellation, hitherto, illuminate, remained, unrecognizable
«Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.»
Author: Lyndon B. Johnson
(President)
| Keywords:
democratic, Hebrew, illuminate, illuminated, illuminating, insights, Israel, Prophets, The Spiritual, way of life
«Hatred paralyses life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| About:
Hate
| Keywords:
confuses, darken, darkening, darkens, harmonize, harmonized, harmonizes, harmonizing, hatred, illuminate, illuminates, illuminating, paralyses, paralysis, releases, releasing
«It is the inherent characteristic of the flames to move upward and illuminate the nearby area. Those great souls who tread on the path of truth become famous and successful.»
«It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed and that which should be simply illuminated and studied. How great is the force of benevolent and searching examination! We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
benevolent, exaggerate, exaggerates, exaggerating, examination, excessive, flame, illuminate, illuminated, required, resort, resort to, searching, studied, The Flame, The Force
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