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“Jealousy is the very reverse of understanding, of sympathy, and of generous feeling. Never has jealousy added to character, never does it make the individual big and fine.”

Doe Character Feelings Bigs Individual Understanding Fine Jealousy Generous Reverse

Book:Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926

Source: Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926

“I regard it as a tragedy that people of a differing sexual orientation find themselves proscribed in a world that has so little understanding for homosexuals and that displays such gross indifference for sexual gradations and variations and the great significance they have for living. It is completely foreign to me to wish to regard such people as less valuable, less moral, incapable of noble sentiments and behavior.”

People World Littles Wish Understanding Moral Behavior Tragedy Regard Valuable Noble Indifference Significance Sentiments Display Incapable Homosexual Gross Variation Orientation

Author:Emma Goldman

“The song Of Heaven is ever new; for daily thus, And nightly, new discoveries are made Of God's unbounded wisdom, power, and love, Which give the understanding larger room, And swell the hymn with ever-growing praise.”

Giving Made Song Heaven Understanding Rooms Growing Discovery And Love Praise Hymns New Discoveries Power And Love

Book:The Course of Time ... Twenty-fourth edition. With a memoir of the author

Source: The Course of Time ... Twenty-fourth edition. With a memoir of the author

“Quality and title have such allurements that hundreds are ready to give up all their own importance, to cringe, to flatter, to look little, and to pall every pleasure in constraint, merely to be among the great, though without the least hopes of improving their understanding or sharing their generosity. They might be happier among their equals.”

Giving Looks Littles Might Understanding Pleasure Quality Ready Giving Up Importance Generosity Titles Improving Constraints Cringe Ready To Give Up

Book:The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and Writings : Stereotyped from the Paris Edition : Complete in One Volume

Source: The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and Writings : Stereotyped from the Paris Edition : Complete in One Volume

“Consciousness of error is, to a certain extent, a consciousness of understanding; and correction of error is the plainest proof of energy and mastery.”

Certain Energy Understanding Consciousness Errors Proof Mastery Corrections

Book:The Works of Walter Savage Landor

Source: The Works of Walter Savage Landor

“I am suspicious - first of all, in myself - of adopted mysticisms of glib spirituality, above all of white people's tendency to ... vampirize American Indian, or African, or Asian, or other 'exotic' ways of understanding.”

People Way Firsts Culture Spirituality Understanding White Tendencies Indian Mysticism Adopted Asian Suspicious Exotic American Indian

Book:What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)

Source: What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)

“Never yet did there exist a full faith in the Divine Word (by whom light as well as immortality was brought into the world) which did not expand the intellect, while it purified the heart--which did not multiply the aims and objects of the understanding, while it fixed and simplified those of the desires and passions.”

World Wells Heart Light Desire Faith Passion Understanding Objects Divine Aim Intellect Immortality Fixed

Book:The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria

Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria

“Be very vigilant over thy child in the April of his understanding, lest the frost of May nip his blossoms. While he is a tender twig, straighten him; whilst he is a new vessel, season him; such as thou makest him, such commonly shall thou find him. Let his first lesson be obedience and his second shall be what thou wilt.”

Firsts May Children Understanding Lessons Seasons Obedience Vessel April Frost Vigilant Twigs Makest

Author:Francis Quarles

“Of all vices take heed of drunkenness; other vices are but fruits of disordered affections--this disorders, nay, banishes reason; other vices but impair the soul--this demolishes her two chief faculties, the understanding and the will; other vices make their own way--this makes way for all vices; he that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice.”

Way Two Soul Reason Understanding Fruit Affection Vices Chiefs Faculty Disorder Qualified Heed Drunkenness Drunkards Demolish

Author:Francis Quarles

“Thy ignorance in unrevealed mysteries is the mother of a saving faith, and thy understanding in revealed truths is the mother of a sacred knowledge; understand not therefore that thou mayest believe, but believe that thou mayest understand; understanding is the wages of a lively faith and faith is the reward of an humble ignorance.”

Believe Mother Understanding Mystery Ignorance Truth Is Sacred Rewards Humble Saving Wages Lively

Book:Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

“The light of the understanding, humility kindleth and pride covereth.”

Light Understanding Humility Pride

Book:Poetical Works: And, Quarles' Emblems

Source: Poetical Works: And, Quarles' Emblems

“He who calls in the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; and he who profits by a superior understanding raises his powers to a level with the height of the superior standing he unites with.”

Understanding Levels Advice Equal Standing Raises Profit Aids Superiors Height

Author:Edmund Burke

“Is it in destroying and pulling down that skill is displayed? The shallowest understanding, the rudest hand, is more than equal to that task.”

Hands Understanding Skills Equal Tasks Critics Destroying Pulling

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)

“Religion, to have any force upon men's understandings,--indeed, to exist at all,--must be supposed paramount to law, and independent for its substance upon any human institution, else it would be the absurdest thing in the world,--an acknowledged cheat.”

Men World Humans Would Be Law Religion Force Understanding Independent Institutions Substance Cheat Paramount

Book:The works and correspondence of...Edmund Burke

Source: The works and correspondence of...Edmund Burke

“Unsociable humors are contracted in solitude, which will, in the end, not fail of corrupting the understanding as well as the manners, and of utterly disqualifying a man for the satisfactions and duties of life. Men must be taken as they are, and we neither make them or ourselves better by flying from or quarreling with them.”

Men Wells Ends Understanding Taken Failing He Man Duty Solitude Satisfaction Flying Manners

Author:Edmund Burke

“How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings. [Lat., O miseras hominum menteis! oh, pectora caeca!]”

Men Mind Understanding Blind Wretched

Author:Lucretius

“It is my belief that children are full of understanding and know as much as and more than adults, until they are about seven, when they suddenly become stupid, like adults.”

Knows Children Belief Understanding Stupid Adults Seven

Book:Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography, 1949 -1962 (Text Only)

Source: Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography, 1949 -1962 (Text Only)

“This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.”

Thinking Believe Real Understanding Seeing Real Things Disillusion

Book:A Stein Reader

Source: A Stein Reader

“Repeating is the whole of living and by repeating comes understanding, and understanding is to some the most important part of living.”

Important Whole Understanding Repetition

Book:GERTRUDE STEIN Ultimate Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Plays, Memoirs & Essays: Three Lives, Tender Buttons, Geography and Plays, Matisse, Picasso and Gertrude Stein, The Making of Americans, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas…

Source: GERTRUDE STEIN Ultimate Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Plays, Memoirs & Essays: Three Lives, Tender Buttons, Geography and Plays, Matisse, Picasso and Gertrude Stein, The Making of Americans, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas…

“People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.”

People Feels Understanding Slogans Pins

Book:Counter-Currents

Source: Counter-Currents

“I believe that there is no test of greatness in periods, nations or men more sure than the development, among them or in them, of a noble grotesque, and no test of comparative smallness or limitation, of one kind or another, more sure than the absence of grotesque invention, or incapability of understanding it.”