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«Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.»
Author: John Burroughs (Essayist, Naturalist) | About: Nature | Keywords: preaches, sermons, spark, stone, stones, teaches
«The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he picture us caught in a tremendous man-made or God-made trap from which there is no escape, but we must also listen to him day in, day out, describe how the trap is inexorably closing. To such prophecies the human race, as presently bred and educated and situated, is incapable of listening. So some dance and some immolate themselves as human torches; some take drugs and some artists spill their creativity in sets of randomly placed dots on a white ground.»
Author: Margaret Mead | Keywords: alternative, bearable, bred, breeding ground, close set, closing, day in day out, describe, doom, dot, dots, dotted, immolate, incapable, inexorably, postulate, postulates, preaches, presently, Prophecies, prophet, randomly, situate, situated, situating, spill, The Prophet, The Trap, torches, trap, tremendous
«When the fox preaches, look to your geese»
Author: German Proverb | Keywords: fox, geese, look to, preaches
«The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken (Critic, Journalist) | Keywords: demagogue, demagogues, doctrines, idiots, preaches, untrue
«You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.»
Author: Martin Luther (Priest, Scholar) | Keywords: conscience, feelings, Lord's table, preaches, receives, sinners, the LORD, The Word
«He preaches well that lives well, quoth Sancho; that's all the divinity I understand»
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | Keywords: divinities, divinity, preaches, Sancho
«A grave, wherever found, preaches a short and pithy sermon to the soul»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne (Novelist, Writer) | Keywords: pithy, preaches, sermon
«Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labor.»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: class, dignity, eloquent, exercise, harp, harping, idle, importance, preaches, thrift
«When a fox preaches, take care of your geese.»
Author: Proverb | Keywords: care, Care of, fox, geese, preaches, take care
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