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«To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare.»
Author: Kenko Yoshida
| About:
Generations
| Keywords:
compare, converse, generations, intimate, lamplight, spread, spread out, unseen
«The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Education
| Keywords:
aim, as many, breed, citizenry, dissent, dissenting, dissents, enlightenment, individuals, level, originality, public, public education, put down, reduce, safe, spread, standard, the Enlightenment
«Spread love everywhere you go: First of all in your own house... let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness.»
Author: Mother Teresa of Calcutta
(Founder, Missionary)
| About:
Kindness,
Love
| Keywords:
all in, everywhere, expression, first of all, happier, house, In Your Eyes, In Your Face, leaving, leavings, One House, spread, spread over, without expression
«The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed, in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a wide-spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible»
«The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who Is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost invariably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And if he is not romantic personally, he is apt to spread discontent among those who are.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
Among the Living, apt, conclusion, discontent, dishonest, insane, intolerable, invariably, personally, prevailing, regard, regard to, romantic, romantics, spread, superstitions, taboo, taboos, The Conclusion, the government, The Romantic, tries
«The bird alighteth not on the spread net when it beholds another bird in the snare. Take warning by the misfortunes of others, that others may not take example from you.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
beholds, bird, misfortunes, net, netting, snare, spread, The Bird, warning
«Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.»
Author: Mother Teresa of Calcutta
(Founder, Missionary)
| Keywords:
everywhere, happier, leaving, leavings, spread, spread over
«The flames kindled on the 4 of July 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism; on the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work them»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
consume, contrary, despotism, engines, extinguished, extinguishes, extinguishing, feeble, flames, globe, globes, Globe and, July, July 4, kindled, on the contrary, spread, spread over, The Flames, The Globe
«Vice repeated is like the wandering wind; blows dust in others eyes, to spread itself»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
blows, repeated, spread, wandering
«The Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society, as it is spread over the whole earth, and over all time.»
Author: William Wordsworth
(Poet)
| Keywords:
all-time, binds, Empire, Empire of, human society, spread, spread over, vast
