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Letter "R" » reverence
«Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control - these three alone lead to power»
Author: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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Self-knowledge
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reverence, reverenced, reverences, self-knowledge, self control, These Three
«Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility»
Author: Dale Dauten
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reverence
«Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.»
«Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.»
Author: Richard Powers
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Science
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condition, cultivating, grows, latest, masteries, mastery, not late, one-step, perpetual, reverence, reverenced, reverences, richer, science, subtler, subtlest, theory, The Face, The Face of
«Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.»
«That love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance. Not a bandage for dirty sores. But they don't know it. Those who speak of love most promiscuously are the ones who've never felt it. They make some sort of feeble stew out of sympathy, compassion, comtempt, and general indiference, and they call it love. Once you've felt what it means to love as you and I know it - the total passion for the total height - you are unable of anything else.»
«The generality of men are naturally swayed more by fear than by reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
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foulness, generalities, generality, naturally, refrain, refrained, refraining, refrains, reverence, swayed, swaying, sways
«Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life, and that to destroy, to harm, or to hinder life is evil»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Evil,
Life,
Morality,
Principles
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affords, assisted, assisting, assists, enhancing, fundamental, fundamental principle, hinder, hindered, Maintaining, namely, reverence
«Reverence, humility, contentment, gratitude and hearing the good Dhamma, this is the best good luck»
«There are men whose presence infuses trust and reverence.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
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Men and Women
| Keywords:
infuse, infused, infuses, presence, reverence
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