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Letter "B" » bestowed
«Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior»
«Mediocrity is self-inflicted. Genius is self-bestowed.»
«Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason /you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions.»
«I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.»
«For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life: / But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead: / Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us; / Ye also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf.»
«HEAT, n.Heat, says Professor Tyndall, is a mode Of motion, but I know now how he's proving His point; but this I know --hot words bestowed With skill will set the human fist a-moving, And where it stops the stars burn free and wild._Crede expertum_ --I have seen them, child. --Gorton Swope»
«In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty /he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world /alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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«If the study of all these sciences which we have enumerated, should ever bring us to their mutual association and relationship, and teach us the nature of the ties which bind them together, I believe that the diligent treatment of them will forward the objects which we have in view, and that the labor, which otherwise would be fruitless, will be well bestowed.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
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«I am a sacrifice to the True Guru, who has bestowed the True Name. Night and day, I praise the True One; I sing the Glorious Praises of the True One. True is the food, and true are the clothes, of those who chant the True Name of the True One.»
«He bestowed the Blessing of His treasure of truth; only He Himself knows.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
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