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Letter "P" » passing
«In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute»
Author: Francis Schaeffer
| Keywords:
absolute, allowed, curious, insistence, in passing, mark, note, of our own, passing, The Absolute
«Let nothing disturb thee, nothing affright thee; all things are passing; God never changeth.»
Author: St. Teresa of Avila
(Mystic, Nun, Writer)
| About:
Faith
| Keywords:
affright, affrighting, disturb, passing
«In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior»
«Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Achievement,
Life,
Pleasure,
Success,
Wishes
| Keywords:
affords, difficulties, forming, gratified, gratifies, one-step, passing, seeing, surmount, surmounted, surmounting, wishes
«I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.»
«Listen to all, plucking a feather from every passing goose, but, follow no one absolutely»
«He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Past
| Keywords:
mortals, passing, remembering
«Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| About:
Hypocrisy
| Keywords:
currents, distortion, hypocrisy, passing
«History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life, and brings us tidings of antiquity.»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
History
| Keywords:
antiquities, antiquity, guidance, illumine, illumines, life history, passing, provides, testifies, testifying, tidings, vitalize, vitalizes, vitalizing, witness
«It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
attain, imperfection, opposite, passing
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