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“Mankind is divided into two classes: those who, being artificial, praise nature, and those who, being natural, praise art.”

Art Two Natural Class Mankind Praise Divided Artificial Being Natural

Book:Mortals and Others, Volume I: American Essays 1931-1935

Source: Mortals and Others, Volume I: American Essays 1931-1935

“Dear Lord and Father of mankind, Forgive our foolish ways! Re-clothe us in our rightful mind, In purer lives thy service find, In deeper reverence praise”

Way Mind Father Lord Mankind Praise Forgiving Dear Deeper Foolish Reverence Dear Lord

Author:John Greenleaf Whittier

“What higher praise can we bestow on any one than to say of him that he harbors another's prejudices with a hospitality so cordial as to give him, for the time, the sympathy next best to, if indeed it be not edification in, charity itself. For what disturbs more and distracts mankind than the uncivil manners that cleave man from man?”

Ifs Men Giving Next Mankind Higher Prejudice Praise Charity Manners Hospitality Harbors Edification

Book:Concord Days

Source: Concord Days

“Our acts of kindness we reserve for our friends, our bounties for our dependants, our riches for our children and relations, our praises for those who appear worthy of them, our time we give all to the world; we expose it, I may say, a prey to all mankind.”

World Giving May Children Time Kindness Mankind Relation Praise Our Children Worthy Riches Our Time Reserves Prey Acts Of Kindness Bounty

Book:Sermons

Source: Sermons

“Heroism, or military glory, is much admired by the generality of mankind. They consider it as the most sublime kind of merit. Menof cool reflection are not so sanguine in their praises of it.”

Kind Mankind Military Glory Reflection Praise Merit Heroism Sublime Generalities Sanguine

Book:Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)

“All our distinctions ire accidental; beauty and deformity, though personal qualities, are neither entitled to praise nor censure; yet it so happens that they color our opinion of those qualities to which mankind have attached responsibility.”

Happens Quality Responsibility Opinion Mankind Color Praise Distinction Entitled Censure Deformity Personal Qualities

Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

“Do not any longer contend for mastery, for power, money, or praise. Be content to be a private, insignificant person, known and loved by God and me....of what importance is your character to mankind, if you was buried just now. Or if you had never lived, what loss would it be to the cause of God.”

Ifs Persons Character Causes Loss Known Mankind Importance Praise Buried Mastery Insignificant

Author:John Wesley

“Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'”

Said War Evil Peace Forget Mankind Praise Philosopher Greek Anti War Antiwar Begets

Book:Inevitable peace

Source: Inevitable peace