In this postwar humanism, however illusory it might have been, a motive is revealed, without which the
humanistic
tendency in general cannot be understood, whether in the days of the Romans or in the age of the modem bourgeois nation-state.
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Sloterdijk - Rules for the Human Zoo |
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Also, I am
delighted
to think that you are not going to desert your old
friend, but intend to remain in your present lodgings.
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Dostoevsky - Poor Folk |
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ADAM
MICKIEWICZ
65
IS) ti on the road of my life they shall be as my compass
falk pointing and leading me to virtue.
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Poland - 1915 - Poland, a Study in National Idealism - Monica Gardner |
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The Polish
miners who work the
coalfields
in Silesia were,
till 1913, paid one-half of the wages received by
other miners in Germany, besides being the
objects of gross tyranny on the part of the German
mineowners.
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Poland - 1915 - Poland, a Study in National Idealism - Monica Gardner |
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-Lively dispositions only
lie for a moment: after this they have deceived
themselves, and are
convinced
and honest.
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Nietzsche - v09 - The Dawn of Day |
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If once this tangent
flight of mine were over, and I were returned to my wonted leisurely
motion in my old circle, I may probably
endeavour
to return her poetic
compliment in kind.
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Robert Burns- |
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Here are the contents of this letter:--
"My Son Petr',--
"We received the 15th of this month the letter in which you ask our
parental blessing and our consent to your marriage with Marya Ivanofna,
the
Mironoff
daughter.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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The mind
should be receptive, a harp waiting to catch the winds, a pool ready to
be ruffled, not a bustling
busybody
for ever trotting about on the
pavement looking for a new bun shop.
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Oscar Wilde - Aphorisms, the Soul of Man |
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A similar prac-
tice appears to have existed among the
Alexandrian
Greeks.
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Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v2 |
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A
mugfaker
— a street
photographer.
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Source: |
Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
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_Christiernus_
King of _Denmark_, a
religious Favourer of the Gospel, is in Exile.
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Erasmus |
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Even in his
own age he might, at Cambridge, whose cloisters have ever been
consecrated to poetry and common sense, have
followed
quietly in Gray's
footsteps and brought into flower those seeds of inspiration which now
lie embedded amid the faded devotion of the Lyra Apostolica.
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Strachey - Eminent Victorians |
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Brown Dermot treads upon the lawn,
And to the
armchair
goes,
And now the old man's dreams are gone,
He smooths the long brown nose.
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Yeats - Poems |
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As he has theoreti cally
maintained
the identity of the forms of human perception and thought with the laws of reality, so he has also convinced himself that this same reality contains all the conditions for ultimately realising the values presented in the rational consciousness.
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Windelband - History of Philosophy |
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IsTature
has given it these
long legs to help it go over ground very rapidly.
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Childrens - Brownies |
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The
important
thing for you
is not how much you know, but the quality of what you
know.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v10 - Emp to Fro |
|
Examples are no less numerous of men who have endured
the utmost
wretchedness
for the sake of gaining or preserving
their reputation.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v23 - Sha to Sta |
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Here, I repeat, you have all that you sought
without
anything
that you shrank from.
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Man and Superman- A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw |
|
I am aware that my
children
and grandchildren are destined to die, but this does not interfere with my efforts to ensure their well-being just as much as if it were to be permanent.
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Sovoliev - End of History |
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This however is but of temporary
duration; for either the manufacturer's expectations were well grounded,
and the market price of his commodities rises, or he
discovers
that
there is a permanently diminished demand, and he no longer resists the
course of affairs: prices fall, and money and interest regain their real
value.
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Ricardo - On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation |
|
As soon as some sou- plesse is introduced, the exchanges between these polar extremes be- come more complicated: the proper becomes the extreme, the
reductio
ad absurdum of a continuum that is figural through and through.
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Paul-de-Man-Material-Events |
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Besides this art, others
innumerable
have been invented within
the space of a few years by mankind, that extend their sway
over air and water, over earth and heaven.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v13 - Her to Hux |
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The organ let out a few
preliminary
hoots and the service began.
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Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
|
[_They stand
astounded
and look at each other_.
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Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
shall I keep
A certain secret close, or shall I speak
Outright?
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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A
labouring man is not allowed to knock down a hare or a
partridge
that
spoils his garden: a country-squire keeps a pack of hounds: a lady of
quality rides out with a footman behind her, on two sleek, well-fed
horses.
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Hazlitt - The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits |
|
"You relate your
adventures
very well, my son," said the mother,
"it makes my mouth water to hear you.
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Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen |
|
It is the freedom of a godless spirituality, a version of Hegel's spiritual animal kingdom - but not an indi- viduality free from substance by withdrawing from the world, rather, an
individuality
whose freedom in the world is freedom from substance.
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Education in Hegel |
|
The
rebellion
(Kossuth); failure; attempt to consolidate
Hungary with Austria.
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Outlines and Refernces for European History |
|
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Wilde - Charmides |
|
Ngồi án con pbải coi chừng,
Bồ ăn có bết, múc bưng
cliỉiOI
vào.
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Phong-hoá-tân-biên-phụ-Huấn-nữ-ca.ocr |
|
F-I-',x =;ia =--= -r==
yoi=a=ir
A:a i-i4- -n=ii{;=!
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Source: |
Sloterdijk - Spheres - v1 |
|
At that moment my
clock began whirring and
wheezing
and struck seven.
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Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground |
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(Soft petals, yes, but not so barren quite,
Mingled with these, smooth bean and
wrinkled
pea;)
And go along with you ere you lose sight
Of what you came for and become like me,
Slave to a springtime passion for the earth.
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Robert Frost - A Mountain Interval |
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He was bigoted,
narrow-minded, bitterly opposed to progress, seeing nothing good out-
side of the
precincts
of the Church.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v15 - Kab to Les |
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The Court of King's Bench pronounced that the
franchises
of
the City of London were forfeited to the Crown.
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Macaulay |
|
And the
centipede
fair-faced stork-hued daughters of Phalacra smote maiden-slaying Thetis with their blades, over Calydnae showing their white wings, their stern-ornaments, their sails outspread by the northern blasts of flaming stormwind: then Alexandra opened her inspired Bacchis lips on the high Hill of Doom that was founded by the wandering cow and thus began to speak:
[31] Alas!
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Lycophron - Alexandra |
|
To him let all young students make their compliments for so much time and pains saved in the pursuit of useful knowledge; for whoever shortens a road, is a
benefactor
to the public, and to every particular person who has occasion to travel that way.
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Swift - A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet |
|
Thus infant
Hercules
the snakes did press,
And in his cradle did his sire confess.
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Ovid - 1865 - Ovid by Alfred Church |
|
For we are well assured that there are many of
retentive
memory, and careful reading in Holy Writ, who know what we are about to say ; and perhaps they wish us to say what they do not know.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v4 |
|
Bruff and
Betteredge
looked across the open door-
way at me for the first time.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v07 - Cic to Cuv |
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Title: The
complete
works of Friedrich Nietzsche.
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Source: |
Nietzsche - v08 - The Case of Wagner |
|
--Change from heavy
industry
to fast information?
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Sloterdijk |
|
He bumped his
elbow against the door at the end and, hurrying down the staircase,
walked quickly through the two
corridors
and out into the air.
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Source: |
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce |
|
So also, the
application
of space to objects in general, would be transcendental ; but if it be limited to objects of sense, it is empirical.
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Kant - Critique of Pure Reason |
|
Between 1993 and 1995, he was a Duma deputy, chairing the parlia- ment's committee on
economic
policies.
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Source: |
Dugin - Alexander Dugin and New European Radical Right |
|
” cried the
penitent
nobleman; “no!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v17 - Mai to Mom |
|
Neither
softened
his soul, nor the sire's bequest
weakened in war.
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Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
" But I was weary of being questioned, and rather than be
nothing, or at best only the abstract idea of a man, I
submitted
by a
bow, even to the aspersion implied in the word "un Philosophe.
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Source: |
Coleridge - Biographia Literaria copy |
|
[_Some
garlands
are brought out from the house to_ ELECTRA.
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Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
"
Our pride revolts as it never did before, it ex-
periences an incomparable charm in defending life
against such a tyrant as suffering and against all
the
insinuations
of this tyrant, who would fain urge
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Source: |
Nietzsche - v09 - The Dawn of Day |
|
In this situation he has
encouraged
Fascist Italy to put forward territorial demands, hoping to create a test which may bring Italy some rewards; for this might be useful to German colonial negotiations in the future.
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Propaganda - 1939 - Foreign Affairs - Will Hitler Save Democracy |
|
But I sunk $170,000 in
the business, and I can't for the life of me
recollect
what it was the
machine was to do.
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Source: |
Twain - Speeches |
|
But the pleasures
involved
in activities are more proper to them than the desires; for the latter are separated both in time and in nature, while the former are close to the activities, and so hard to distinguish from them that it admits of dispute whether the activity is not the same as the pleasure.
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Aristotle copy |
|
Of forty, ten, with pain,
Swimming
aboard the bark in safety rest.
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Answer: |
|
Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
|
Va, si tu veux,
chercher
un fiance stupide;
Cours offrir un coeur vierge a ses cruels baisers;
Et, pleine de remords et d'horreur, et livide,
Tu me rapporteras tes seins stigmatises;
On ne peut ici-bas contenter qu'un seul maitre!
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
"
"How
delicious!
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
So the wise masterful Spirit rules the joys
That come all fierce from roaming the dark blood;
They are broken to his desire, they are wily for him,
A pack of lusts wherewith the Spirit hunts
Pleasure; and the chief prey the
pleasure
hid
In woman.
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Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
Moderation in all things, but a
moderation
that
―
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v18 - Mom to Old |
|
Yes,
ANYthing
that could serve to enlighten him.
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Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Speaking |
|
Now read the Decrees, by which the Byzantians and
Perinthians crowned the
Republic
for thefe Meafures.
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Source: |
Demosthenes - Orations - v2 |
|
Evening: New York
Blue dust of evening over my city,
Over the ocean of roofs and the tall towers
Where the window-lights, myriads and myriads,
Bloom from the walls like
climbing
flowers.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Sara Teasdale - Flame and Shadow |
|
" But the power of sin had slipped from its physical mooring in the body and was drifting like a nova across the sky in the transfigured new world of a Bonadea who, in this unaccustomed softer radiance, felt
released
from her "excitability" as though the scales of some leprous disease had fallen away from her.
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Source: |
Musil - Man Without Qualities - v1 |
|
As used by Malthusians and spoken of here it means persistent
lack of one or more of these
necessary
requisites for decent living.
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Sutherland - Birth Control- A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians |
|
Till mighty Brahma puts his golden palm
Within the gipsy king's great striped tent,
And asks his fortune told by that great love-line
That winds across his palm in
splendid
flame.
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Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
I have
nothing to do in London; and 'tis
indifferent
to me if I never
see it more.
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Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v18 - Mom to Old |
|
The latter is a negative from
internal
and infinite
completeness, the former a limitation from internal infinite power.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Literary and Philosophical Essays- French, German and Italian by Immanuel Kant |
|
Where would men be if the cult of virtue
depended
on what happened long ago to Sichem and little Dinah?
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|
Answer: |
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Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Instigations |
|
Beginning with the epic
Matilda,' studied from English history, the series was continued by
a poem on the Wars of the Roses,' afterward
enlarged
into “The
Barons' Wars.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v09 - Dra to Eme |
|
Yet not
one of these gentlemen showed the slightest self-consciousness--either
about their clothes or their countenance or their
character
in any way.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground |
|
Five years glid by, and Brown, one day
(Which he'd got so fat that he wouldn't weigh),
Was a settin' down, sorter lazily,
To the
bulliest
dinner you ever see,
When one o' the children jumped on his knee
And says, "Yan's Jones, which you bought his land.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
Nevertheless, this work is expensive, so in order to keep providing this resource, we have taken steps to prevent abuse by
commercial
parties, including placing technical restrictions on automated querying.
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Source: |
Aryan Civilization - 1870 |
|
Et par
contraste avec tant de relief, par l'harmonie aussi qui les unissait à
elle, qui avait adapté son attitude à leur forme et à leur
utilisation, le pianola qui la cachait à demi comme un buffet d'orgue,
la bibliothèque, tout ce coin de la chambre
semblait
réduit à n'être
plus que le sanctuaire éclairé, la crèche de cet ange musicien,
œuvre d'art qui, tout à l'heure, par une douce magie, allait se
détacher de sa niche et offrir à mes baisers sa substance précieuse
et rose.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - v6 |
|
O thou field of my delight so fair and
verdant!
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|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
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Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
how- ever, what ascends to the
cultural
and is composed into value systems.
Guess: |
|
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|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Peter-Sloterdijk-Thinker-on-Stage |
|
On this occasion he spoke many things with much wisdom and prudence, and concluded with many
emphatic
remarks, on the subject of ingratitude towards benefactors and of the folly [.
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|
Answer: |
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Source: |
Diodorus Siculus - Historical Library |
|
THOSE WHO LOVE
Those who love the most
Do not talk of their love;
Francesca, Guenevere,
Dierdre, Iseult, Heloise
In the fragrant gardens of heaven
Are silent, or speak, if at all,
Of fragile,
inconsequent
things.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
In this less familiar
a new form, but with
considerable
modi- field Mr.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v30 - Guide to Systematic Readings |
|
In its midst,
illusory
?
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Shobogenzo |
|
Applying this to
Schopenhauer
himself, we
come to the third and most intimate danger in
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Answer: |
|
Source: |
Nietzsche - v05 - Untimely Meditations - b |
|
LXXVII
"Him I believe not, that told this truth to you,
Though in all else he gospel-truths exprest;
As less by his experience, than untrue
Conceit
respecting
women prepossest.
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Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
|
740
"O known
Unknown!
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|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Keats |
|
xix
arise from the possession of
friend,
encourager
men
quired the esteem and respect
acquainted with him.
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|
Answer: |
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Source: |
Dodsley - Select Collection of Old Plays - v1 |
|
For the sky is dark, and the voyage is long;
And, happen what may, it's
extremely
wrong
In a sieve to sail so fast.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
And when my work shall be done in this world, O King of kings,
alone and
speechless
shall I stand before thee face to face.
Guess: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Tagore - Gitanjali |
|
CaveiustsiVs
house was an
excellent
garden, which 03 was
?
Guess: |
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Question: |
|
Answer: |
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Source: |
Childrens - Tales of the Hermitage |
|
And how can he be counselled that cannot see to read the
best
counsellors
(which are books), for they neither flatter us nor hide
from us?
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
|
EgE Ei;iEii
iiiiiiiiii
siEi
:EgIi;iiiElriEiEiigiiiEiiIEiaiiii
s;t;E;
?
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Luhmann-Love-as-Passion |
|
At the
age of 13 he eminently excelled in Latin, Greek, Hebrew, philo
sophy, mathematics,
theology
in all its branches, and many of
the sciences.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Sarpi - 1888 - History of Fra Paolo Sarpi 2 |
|
One major char- acteristic of anti-Semites is a relatively blind hostility which is reflected in the stereotypy, self-contradiction, and
destructiveness
of their thinking about Jews.
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Answer: |
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Both expeditions seem to have obtained
sufficient supplies of food without
difficulty
from the markets of the
towns they passed through.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v5 - Contest of Empire and the Papacy |
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(one only has to think of the apparently harmless examples in the commodity
analysis
in volume 1 of Capital), to say nothing of the military weapon commodities and commodity weapons.
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When the
Cytherean
saw Adonis dead, his hair dishevelled and his cheeks wan and place, she bade the Loves go fetch her the boar, and they forthwith flew away and scoured the woods till they found the sullen boar.
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Megara and Dead Adonis |
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The game always contains, in each of its operations,
references
to the real reality which exists at the same time.
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Luhmann-Niklas-the-Reality-of-the-Mass-Media |
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We encourage the use of public domain
materials
for these purposes and may be able to help.
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Ovid - 1805 - Art of Live |
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,
107, "Hoc quidem haud
molestum
est, jam quod collum collari caret.
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Satires |
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Overborne
by the
superior influence of Duke Bernard, Gustavus Horn was compelled to risk
a contest, whose unfavourable issue, a dark foreboding seemed already to
announce.
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Schiller - Thirty Years War |
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The
upbraidings
of my conscience, nay the upbraidings of my wife, have
persecuted me on your account these two or three months past.
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Robert Forst |
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100
Oh
thoughtless
mortals!
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Alexander Pope |
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One
afternoon
in late February a warm, rich, appetising scent,
such as the animals had never smelt before, wafted itself across the yard
from the little brew-house, which had been disused in Jones's time, and
which stood beyond the kitchen.
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Orwell - Animal Farm |
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