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«The value of history is, indeed, not scientific but moral: by liberalizing the mind, by deepening the sympathies, by fortifying the will, it enables us to control, not society, but ourselves - a much more important thing; it prepares us to live more»
Author: Carl Becker
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Value
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«The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.»
«Cautious, careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation or social standards never can bring about reform. Those who are really in earnest are willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathies with despised ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.»
Author: Susan B. Anthony
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advocates, avow, avowed, bring about, bring to bear, casting, cautious, despised, earnest, estimation, estimations, in earnest, privately, publicly, reform, Social reform, standards, sympathies
«Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
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contracted, insensible, narrow-minded, obsolete, prejudiced, remained, sympathies, trifles, wasting, wondrous
«BABE or BABY, n. A misshapen creature of no particular age, sex, or condition, chiefly remarkable for the violence of the sympathies and antipathies it excites in others, itself without sentiment or emotion. There have been famous babes; for example, little Moses, from whose adventure in the bulrushes the Egyptian hierophants of seven centuries before doubtless derived their idle tale of the child Osiris being preserved on a floating lotus leaf.Ere babes were invented The girls were contended. Now man is tormented Until to buy babes he has squandered His money. And so I have pondered This thing, and thought may be'T were better that Baby The First had been eagled or condored. --Ro Amil»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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Amil, antipathies, babes, bulrush, bulrushes, contended, derived, doubtless, Egyptian, floating, misshapen, Osiris, pondered, squandered, sympathies, tormented
«We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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accustomed, deride, derided, derides, snarl, snarling, snarls, sympathies
«Let your secret sympathies and your compassion be always with the under dog in the fight - this is magnanimity; but bet on the other one - this is business»
«Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. Broadly speaking, there are none but corn-pone opinions. And broadly speaking, Corn-Pone stands for Self-Approval. Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people. The result is Conformity.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
approval, associations, broadly, broadly speaking, corn, hardly a, mainly, pone, sympathies
«No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
mannerism, mannerisms, sympathies, unpardonable
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