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«Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something that is wise it is nothing that the river horse does not know, and most of his creations are the result of accident.»
«Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.»
«What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness! A beautiful woman utters absurdities: we listen, and we hear not the absurdities but wise thoughts»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
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Beauty,
Goodness
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absurdities, suppose, utters
«O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.»
Author: St. Teresa of Avila
(Mystic, Nun, Writer)
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continuous, follies, longs, pious, possesses, utters
«RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is devoid of the dignity of character distinguishing him who utters them. It may be graphic, mimetic or merely rident. Shaftesbury is quoted as having pronounced it the test of truth --a ridiculous assertion, for many a solemn fallacy has undergone centuries of ridicule with no abatement of its popular acceptance. What, for example, has been more valorously derided than the doctrine of Infant Respectability?»
«SLANG, n. The grunt of the human hog (_Pignoramus intolerabilis_) with an audible memory. The speech of one who utters with his tongue what he thinks with his ear, and feels the pride of a creator in accomplishing the feat of a parrot. A means (under Providence) of setting up as a wit without a capital of sense.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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accomplishing, audible, feat, grunt, grunts, hog, human ear, slang, utters
«All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another; and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it»
«Yours is the Honor, God, and Yours is the Power. You are the True Lord and Master, the Ocean of Excellence. Servant Nanak utters this prayer, may I meditate on You twenty-four hours a day.»
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