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Letter "L" » likeness
«Love a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of love on earth»
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
Divine, divines, divine being, Divine love, likeness, likenesses, on earth, sin, summit, summits, The Summit
«If the devil does not exist, and man has therefore created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness»
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Devil,
Mankind
| Keywords:
does not exist, image, likeness, likenesses, the Devil
«Every one had four faces apiece, and every one four wings; and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings.»
«For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: / Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.»
«Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: / Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: / But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: / And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.»
«How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Painting
| Keywords:
admired, likeness, originals, reproduced, reproduces, reproducing
«It is not merely the likeness which is precious... but the association and the sense of nearness involved in the thing... the fact of the very shadow of the person lying there fixed forever! It is the very sanctification of portraits I think -- and it is not at all monstrous in me to say that I would rather have such a memorial of one I dearly loved, than the noblest Artist's work ever produced.»
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
| Keywords:
association, dearly, likeness, memorial, memorials, monstrous, nearness, noblest, portraits, sanctification, The Association
«It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men, for if two sexes are quite inadequate, considering the vastness and variety of the world, how should we manage with one only? Ought not education to bring out and fortify the differences rather than the similarities? For we have too much likeness as it is, and if an explorer should come back and bring word of other sexes looking through the branches of other trees at other skies, nothing would be of greater service to humanity; and we should have the immense pleasure into the bargain of watching Professor X rush for his measuring-rods to prove himself ''superior.''»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
| Keywords:
bargain, branches, Branches of, bring out, Considering, explorer, explorers, fortified, fortifies, fortify, immense, inadequate, into the bargain, likeness, measuring, pities, professor, rods, rush, sexes, Sex education, similarities, similarity, skies, The Bargain, variety, vastness
«Heaven held his hand, the likeness must be true.»
«I affirm, and would maintain, that true religion consists in proposing, as our great end, a growing likeness to the Supreme Being.»
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